Over 300 organizations oppose the $140 Billion Expansion of ICE and CBP Funding

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April 28, 2026

Dear Representatives,

Immigrant communities and civil and human rights organizations across the country are grateful for your ongoing vigilance against additional dollars for ICE and Border Patrol, dollars that will be used to tear apart families and jail immigrants in dangerous conditions.

Across the country, working families cannot afford to pay their bills while facing ever-increasing prices at the gas pump, the doctor’s office, and grocery stores. Despite these widespread anxieties over basic affordability, Senate and House leadership are forcing a partisan vote on billions more for immigration enforcement and deportation.

This budget resolution debate comes at a time when ICE and CBP are already swimming in money, their coffers filled with far more than their usual appropriated budgets thanks to the $170 billion provided for immigration enforcement, detention and deportations by last summer’s harmful reconciliation bill. That bill cut funding for health care and food aid to fuel deeply unpopular and violent immigration actions, yet Congress is back at it again.

We urge you to vote NO on the budget resolution. This measure would allow Congress to spend up to $140 billion in new mandatory funds for ICE and CBP, without guardrails or accountability on agencies engaged in violent behavior in our communities, through 2035.

The American people overwhelmingly see that ICE and CBP are making our communities less safe. We are grateful to all those Members of Congress standing in unity against more money for ICE and CBP.

Sincerely,

National Organizations
Acacia Center for Justice
Advocates for Youth
African Communities Together
AFT
AIDS Action Baltimore
AIDS United
Alianza Americas
Alianza Nacional de Campesinas
Alliance of Baptists
American Civil Liberties Union
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Americans for Tax Fairness
America’s Voice
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Asian American Justice Center
Asian Law Caucus
ASISTA Immigration Assistance
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
Austin Trauma Therapy Center
Autistic People of Color Fund
Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network
AVAC
Bend the Arc: Jewish Action
Care in Action
Caring Across Generations
Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Gender & Refugee Studies
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
Center for Progressive Reform
Center for Victims of Torture
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.
Child Welfare League of America
Christians for a Free Palestine
Church World Service
Coalition on Human Needs
Community Catalyst
Community Change Action
Community of Christ
Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, USA
Democracy Power Project
Dēmos
Detention Watch Network
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
Drug Policy Alliance
Earthjustice Action
Economic Policy Institute
Economic Security Project Action
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Equal Rights Advocates
Family Values @ Work
Freedom for Immigrants
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network
HIAS
Hindus for Human Rights Action
Hispanic Federation
Human Rights First
Immigrant Defense Project
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Indivisible
Institute for Policy Studies’ Poverty Project
Institute for Policy Studies, National Priorities Project
International Refugee Assistance Project
Jobs with Justice
Jobs With Justice
Just Detention International
Just Futures Law
Just Solutions
Justice + Joy National Collaborative
Justice in Motion
Kairos Center for Religions Rights and Social Justice
Kelly S. Ramsey Consulting, LLC
Latin America Working Group Education Fund
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
League of Conservation Voters
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
League of Women Voters of the United States
Legal Action Center
Make the Road States
MARBE S.A.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
MoveOn
MPower Change Action Fund
Muslim Advocates
NAKASEC
National Center for Youth Law
National Council on Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH)
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Education Association
National Health Care for the Homeless Council
National Health Law Program
National Immigrant Justice Center
National Immigration Project
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice
National Low Income Housing Coalition
National Network To End Domestic Violence
National Nurses United
National Organization for Women
National Partnership for New Americans
National Women’s Law Center
National Working Positive Coalition
Never Again Action
New Disabled South
New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice
No Concentration Camps US
Nonprofit Professional Employees Union, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 70
North American Climate, Conservation and Environment(NACCE)
Organized Power in Numbers
Partners for Dignity & Rights
Pax Christi USA
Peace Action
People For the American Way
People Power United
People’s Action Institute
PFLAG National
Physicians for Reproductive Health
Planned Parenthood Action Fund
Popular Democracy
Positive Women’s Network-USA
PrEP4All
Public Advocacy for Kids (PAK)
Public Citizen
Public Counsel
Radical Women
Refugee Council USA
Refugees International
RESULTS
Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center
Save HIV Funding Campaign
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Sierra Club
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas – Justice Team
South Asian Public Health Association
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC)
Stop AAPI Hate
Tahirih Justice Center
TechTonic Justice
The Advocates for Human Rights
The AIDS Institute
The Episcopal Church
The Gault Center: Defenders of Youth Rights
The Sero Project
The Sikh Coalition
The United Methodist Church General Board of Church and Society The Workers Circle
Transitions Clinic Network
U.S. People Living with HIV Caucus
UnidosUS
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice
United Church of Christ
United for a Fair Economy
United We Dream Network (UWD)
Vera Institute of Justice
Voices for Progress
Voto Latino
Washington Office on Latin America
We are CASA
Western States Center
Witness at the Border
Worker Institute
Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights
Young People in Recovery

State and Local Organizations
Somos Alabama — Alabama
Asylum Program of Arizona — Arizona
Borderlands Resource Initiative — Arizona
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project — Arizona
Frontera de Cristo — Arizona
Kino Border Initiative — Arizona
350 Bay Area Action — California
A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment & Healing) — California Al Otro Lado — California
Alianza — California
Buen Vecino — California
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice — California California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative — California
California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance — California
California Work & Family Coalition — California
Californians United for a Responsible Budget — California
Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants — California
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) — California
Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking — California
Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, Inc. (CAB) — California Courage California — California
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant — California
End Child Poverty CA — California
Esperanza Cuautle — California
Harbor Institute for Immigrant & Economic Justice — California
Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) — California
Indivisible Marin — California
Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California — California
Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA) — California
La Defensa — California
New Light Wellness — California
NorCal Resist — California
Oasis Legal Services — California
ORALE: Organizing Rooted in Abolition Liberation and Empowerment — California Orange County Equality Coalition — California
Orange County Rapid Response Network — California
San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility — California
Santa Cruz Climate Action Network — California
Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN) — California
South Bay People Power — California
The Wage Justice Center — California
Worksafe — California
Colorado Jobs with Justice — Colorado
Denver Justice and Peace Committee – DJPC — Colorado
Shut Down GEO Aurora — Colorado
Swan Counseling Services — Colorado
Central American Resource Center — District of Columbia
Bilbao Law — Florida
Florida Harm Reduction Collective — Florida
The Florida HIV Justice Coalition — Florida
Yaya por vida — Florida
John DeMello — Georgia
Sur Legal Collaborative — Georgia
Hawaiʻi Children’s Action Network Speaks! — Hawaii
Hawai’i Health & Harm Reduction — Hawaii
Hep Free Hawai’i — Hawaii
AIDS Foundation Chicago — Illinois
Arise Chicago — Illinois
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights — Illinois
Illinois Head Start Association — Illinois
Latino Policy Forum — Illinois
Sisters of the Presentation, Dubuque, IA — Iowa
Workplace Justice Project — Louisiana
Biddeford Adult Education — Maine
Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition — Maine
Maine People’s Alliance — Maine
Pax Christi Maine — Maine
Portland Friends Meeting (Quaker) — Maine
Presente! Maine — Maine
Advance Maryland — Maryland
Bend the Arc: Jewish Action Maryland — Maryland
Indivisible Bowie and Beyond — Maryland
IndivisibleHoCoMD — Maryland
Boston Teachers Union — Massachusetts
James Rogers — Massachusetts
Jane Doe Inc., the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence — Massachusetts
Jewish Activists for Immigration Justice of Western Mass — Massachusetts
Justice at Work — Massachusetts
Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts — Massachusetts
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition — Massachusetts Massachusetts Law Reform Institute — Massachusetts
Merrimack Valley Project — Massachusetts
Resistance Boston — Massachusetts
Cares of Southwest Michigan — Michigan
Detroit Disability Power — Michigan
Huron Valley Indivisible — Michigan
INDIVISIBLE: Downriver United 734 — Michigan
Lansing Area AIDS Network — Michigan
Michigan Immigrant Rights Center — Michigan
NE Oakland Indivisible — Michigan
Statewide Indivisible Michigan — Michigan
The Arc Michigan — Michigan
Minnesota Interfaith Coalition on Immigration — Minnesota
Violence Free Minnesota — Minnesota
My Brother’s Keeper, Inc. — Mississippi
Flower Boi STL — Missouri
Progress MO — Missouri
Nebraska Appleseed — Nebraska
Battle Born Progress — Nevada
Make the Road Nevada — Nevada
Native Voters Alliance NV — Nevada
Nevada Chapter of the National Organization for Women — Nevada
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada — Nevada
Central New Hampshire Indivisible — New Hampshire
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders of New Jersey — New Jersey
Casa Freehold — New Jersey
Indivisible Somerset County NJ — New Jersey
New Jersey Consortium for Immigrant Children — New Jersey
Pax Christi New Jersey — New Jersey
Pax Christi NJ — New Jersey
Resistencia en Accion NJ — New Jersey
New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence — New Mexico
NM Comunidades en Accion Y de Fe — New Mexico
NM Dream Team — New Mexico
Apex for Youth — New York
Bronx United Progressives — New York
Chinese Progressive Association — New York
Citizen Action of New York — New York
Episcopal Diocese of Rochester — New York
Feerick Center for Social Justice, Fordham Law School — New York
Fordham Law School’s Feerick Center for Social Justice — New York
Indivisible YorktownNY — New York
Japanese American Social Services, Inc. — New York
Labor and Employment Committee of the New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild — New York
Long Island Immigrant Justice Alliance — New York
Long Island Immigration Clinic/Sisters of St. Joseph — New York
Make the Road New York — New York
Mekong NYC — New York
New York Immigration Coalition — New York
Pax Christi New York State — New York
Putnam Progressives — New York
Rockland immigration Coalition — New York
Sakhi for South Asian Survivors — New York
The New York Progressive Action Network — New York
Unity Fellowship of Christ Church-New York City — New York
UnLocal — New York
Voices of Community Activists And Leaders — New York
WESPAC Foundation, Inc. — New York
Worker Justice Center of New York — New York
El Pueblo — North Carolina
La Fuerza NC — North Carolina
North Carolina Justice Center — North Carolina
Communities United For Action — Ohio
CUFA — Ohio
American Federation of Teachers Oregon — Oregon
Farm Worker Ministry Northwest — Oregon
Northwest Workers’ Justice Project — Oregon
Oregon Just Transition Alliance — Oregon
Action Wellness — Pennsylvania
Bhutanese Community Association of Pittsburgh — Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Immigration Coalition — Pennsylvania
SD Pax Christi — South Dakota
La Paz Chattanooga — Tennessee
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition — Tennessee
Children’s Defense Fund-Texas — Texas
Church in the Cliff — Texas
Del Camino Jesuit Border Ministries — Texas
Estrella del Paso — Texas
Hope Border Institute — Texas
Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative — Texas
Texas Black Migrant Ecosystem — Texas
Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry (TXUUJM) — Texas
Workers Defense Action Fund — Texas
Voices for Utah Children — Utah
Showing Up for Racial Justice Northern Virginia — Virginia
We of Action Virginia — Virginia
Khmer Anti-deportation Advocacy Group — Washington
Northwest Health Law Advocates — Washington
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project — Washington
OneAmerica — Washington
Pardess Jewish Community — Washington
Washington State Budget and Policy Center — Washington
Voces De La Frontera — Wisconsin

Photo: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations’ (ERO) officers in West Palm Beach, Florida on February 14, 2025. Courtesy of usicegov, available via Wikimedia Commons.