1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

I urge you to filibuster the upcoming Homeland Security appropriations bill unless one or more of the following are fulfilled: • There are significant changes to how ICE operates, so they aren’t behaving like lawless thugs. • ICE’s funding bump from the One Big Beautiful Bill is erased and returned to last year’s levels of $10B annually (down from the larger $37.5B). • ICE is completely defunded and operations are paused until the agency can be vetted/reformed. • ICE is shut down entirely. I’m sick of watching lawful citizens and noncitizens being arrested at their jobs, assaulted at peaceful protests, pulled out of their vehicles, blinded by munitions, and getting shot and killed. It’s un-American and we need qualified, well-trained officers to enforce only immigration law — not rogue, unidentified agents detaining, assaulting, shooting, and murdering people. ICE won’t make these changes — and according to Secretary Noem, they won’t — Congress needs to step up and use its power in the Constitution to rein in, change, defund, or abolish ICE.