1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

Renee Nicole Good, killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis was an American citizen, a mother, and a legal observer. Her death is tragic, but it is not isolated. In 2025 alone, many have died while in ICE custody or during ICE operations. This is not the hallmark of a professional law-enforcement agency operating with discipline and restraint. A government agency that routinely denies medical care, obstructs congressional oversight, escalates encounters, and responds to public scrutiny with secrecy and propaganda is an agency that cannot be trusted with expanded power. Flooding cities with heavily armed federal agents, while restricting congressional oversight and expanding recruitment through “wartime” rhetoric, is not strength. It is instability. ICE did not exist before 2003. The United States enforced immigration law for generations without it. Congress created ICE, and Congress has the authority—and responsibility—to dismantle it when it becomes dangerous. I urge you to take the following actions: • Support legislation to dismantle ICE and redistribute any necessary functions under agencies with clear limits, transparent rules, and real oversight. • Freeze funding for ICE expansion and mass recruitment until Congress completes a full investigation into use-of-force policies, medical care failures, and detainee deaths. • Hold public hearings to restore congressional authority and reaffirm that no federal agency operates above the law. Please act NOW before more lives are lost or ruined.