No Continuing Resolution (CR) for DHS
In early February, Congress passed a government funding deal that included a 2-week continuing resolution (CR) for DHS while fully funding the remainder of the government. Congress now faces a February 13th deadline to pass a new appropriations bill for DHS. Failure to pass further funding will result in a shutdown of the department.
Recent atrocities committed against both immigrants and citizens under the Trump administration have drawn attention to abuses of power by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). A whistleblower recently revealed an internal DHS memo authorizing ICE agents to enter homes without a judge-signed warrant, in a flagrant violation of the Fourth Amendment. However, these abuses are hardly new. Since ICE and CBP were established in 2003, these agencies have terrorized immigrant communities, conducted unconstitutional border checkpoints, torn apart families, denied immigrants their due process rights, and subjected detained immigrants to physical, sexual, and mental abuse. The killing of Renee Good in Minnesota was the 9th ICE shooting since September 2025.
ICE also received an influx of billions of dollars in additional funding from the so-called “One Big Beautiful” bill. The bill placed no guardrails or conditional oversight on the use of this money, essentially creating a $75 billion slush fund for ICE to continue their violent attacks on communities across the country.
Call on your representatives to block any DHS appropriations bill or Continuing Resolution (CR) that maintains funding for ICE or CBP, or fails to hold these agencies accountable for their violent lawlessness.
Contacts for this topic:
Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY, ZIP].
I’m calling to urge [REP/SEN NAME] vote against a Continuing Resolution for DHS and only support a funding bill that includes significant changes to ICE and Border Patrol. These agencies are recklessly endangering the American public and must be reined in. The necessary changes I would like to see enacted include…
[Choose any number of the following]:
- A zeroing out of ICE’s appropriations funding, (and)
- A repeal of H.R. 1’s $170 billion slush fund for ICE and Border Patrol, (and)
- A requirement that agents remove their masks and show identification, (and)
- A ban on arrests without judicial warrants, (and)
- A ban on roving patrols, racial profiling, and arrest quotas, (and)
- A ban on agents’ access to polling locations, schools, day cares, medical facilities, and other vulnerable locations, (and)
- A return of Border Patrol officers to the border, (and)
- Independent inspectors and oversight of all detention facilities to ensure humane treatment of detainees, (and)
- A ban on the detention and deportation of children, (and)
- A ban on the use of surveillance technology to track people, (and)
- An end to the use of deadly force and the detention and deportation of U.S. citizens and lawfully present immigrants.
I expect Congress to do their job to enforce these laws and demand the investigation and prosecution of agents who break them.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
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