Oppose a DHS Deal with ICE Funding (Updated 3/28)

Updates

March 28, 2026: The House rejected the Senate-passed funding bill and instead passed a 2-month Continuing Resolution (CR) for all of DHS, including ICE and CBP funding. Both chambers of Congress are now on recess until mid-April; DHS will remain entirely shut down.

March 27, 2026: By a voice vote, the Senate has passed a DHS funding bill for all DHS agencies except ICE and CBP. The bill now moves to the House where a vote is expected Friday before April recess.

March 24, 2026: Senate Republicans are organizing a deal to restart DHS funding via two separate bills: one to fund all DHS components except for ICE’s deportation operations and a separate budget reconciliation bill to pass ICE funding and the SAVE America Act with a partisan 50-vote threshold (although using budget reconciliation to pass the SAVE America Act would almost certainly violate Senate parliamentary rules). While it remains unclear which parts of ICE will or will not be funded through this deal, incremental minor reforms to ICE and Border Patrol are inadequate. Demand your representatives oppose any deal that maintains the status quo operations of these rogue agencies while attempting to sneak through a voter suppression bill.

February 13, 2026: By a vote of 52-47, the Senate voted down H.R. 7147, the standalone DHS funding bill passed by the House earlier in January. Sen. Fetterman (D-PA) was the lone vote to cross party lines. DHS is now set to shut down at midnight. Both the House and Senate have left for February recess, though negotiations will continue.

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.