Statement by Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs, June 10, 2026:

The Coalition on Human Needs is committed to defending and strengthening the rule of law. We do so because without legally binding constraints on government agents’ denial of services and use of force, most of us can be subject to loss, harm, and even death. The lawless actions of ICE and Customs and Border Protection over the past year, enabled by blank check funding enacted by Congress, have inflicted loss, harm, and death again and again. So we are dismayed that a slim majority in Congress has voted to drastically increase funds for ICE and CBP in S.2, without strengthening legally binding constraints on them. The $70 billion handed to these agencies is needed for investments in health care, nutrition, education, housing, and other basic needs. The consequences of failure to invest in meeting needs while delivering taxpayer dollars to impose harm will be painful and long remembered.

We will continue to work with our many allies nationwide to reverse this recklessly irresponsible legislation, and to expose and fight to remedy the harms being inflicted.