The League joined partners in opposing legislation that would provide additional funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The letter was sent to the US House and urged a NO vote on the budget resolution.
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,
See Attached for List of Signatories