1. United States
2. Fla.
3. Letter

Block ICE's purchase of electric shock gloves in the FY2027 DHS appropriations bill, and use your oversight of the Department of Homeland Security to demand answers before a single dollar goes out. ICE is moving to spend as much as $20 million through early 2027 to put thousands of these devices, commercially called the G.L.O.V.E., in agents' hands. A button on the wrist delivers a painful shock the moment the glove touches skin. The whole design is to inflict pain until a person complies, and officers could be carrying them as soon as March 2027. The strongest warning against this comes from the company that makes it. Compliant Technologies' own user guide says the device shouldn't be used against mere verbal defiance or as punishment, and warns against using it on children, the elderly, pregnant women, and people with serious disabilities. When the manufacturer itself has to spell out that many people it must never touch, that tells you how easily it gets misused, especially against someone already restrained or in custody. Former DHS officials have said the same. This isn't a fight about enforcement itself. It's a question of whether Congress signs off on how enforcement money gets spent. You hold that power in the appropriations bill being negotiated right now. A funding restriction can stop this purchase before it starts. Please use it.