Demand ICE Accountability and Investigations Into Deadly Force and Authoritarian Tactics

I am writing to urge you to oppose ICE's ongoing attacks on both immigrants and citizens and to hold this administration accountable for their authoritarian and unlawful tactics. Recent enforcement actions have crossed fundamental lines of constitutional governance and human decency, requiring immediate congressional intervention. ICE has conducted targeted raids in Democratic-led cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, and New Orleans, as well as operations specifically targeting the Somali community in Minnesota. Following Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago and Alligator Alcatraz in Miami, thousands of immigrants have gone missing. Hundreds of U.S. citizens have been wrongfully detained, often due to racial profiling. The administration has paused green cards and citizenship applications for people from 19 countries and canceled citizenship ceremonies, disrupting the lives of legal residents pursuing lawful pathways. Most alarmingly, ICE has used deadly force against protesters, resulting in the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. These killings demand full criminal investigations and accountability. Instead, the DOJ has coordinated efforts to protect ICE agents from criminal liability, creating a dangerous precedent of impunity for federal law enforcement. ICE detention facilities have documented 510 identifiable human rights violations, including sexual assault, medical negligence, and mistreatment of children and pregnant people. The administration has revived family separation policies affecting hundreds of children. ICE is deploying privacy-violating surveillance tools including facial recognition spyware, phone hacking, social media monitoring, and license plate tracking through systems like Flock Safety to profile and track individuals. I ask that you demand full investigations into ICE's use of deadly force and the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, refuse to pass any DHS appropriations bill that maintains funding for ICE, conduct public investigations into the DOJ's coordinated protection of ICE agents from criminal liability, and call for the impeachment of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. These actions represent indicators of rising authoritarianism that threaten the constitutional rights of all Americans, not just immigrant communities.