Stop Enabling ICE’s Dangerous Detention and Deportation Drive

Immigration Advocates Oppose Additional Funding in the FY2026 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill

Congress is poised to further balloon the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) bloated budget, expanding ICE’s sprawling detention apparatus at a time of record deaths in the system. The proposed 2026 DHS appropriations bill would provide billions to private contractors already profiting from the windfall DHS received last summer, including for private prisons, militarized immigration policing, and surveillance companies. We have seen the danger of aggressive immigration policing that leads to the detention of longtime residents, children, and even U.S. citizens. Passing this bill and giving DHS more money to detain our neighbors is dangerous and may lead to irreversible harm.

Statement issued by the National Immigrant Justice Center, Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, National Immigration Law Center, Detention Watch Network, United We Dream, American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights First, Amnesty International, and the National Immigration Project:

Letter to Congress signed by 500+ organizations nationwide:

Letter to Congress from 1,025 organizations nationwide: