Stop Funding Violence: Human Needs Advocates Tell Congress to Halt DHS Expansion
In response to a series of deadly immigration enforcement actions, a broad swath of labor unions, child welfare advocates, faith groups, anti-violence organizations, and human needs organizations are speaking out about the impact of immigration enforcement and detention on human needs. These statements reflect deep concern over unchecked use of force, racial profiling, family detention, and enforcement actions that terrorize communities while diverting resources from health care, housing, education, and other vital human needs. Organizations below and others are urging Congress to halt new ICE and Border Patrol spending and impose meaningful oversight and guardrails to prevent further loss of life and harm to communities.
Below, you will find statements and other resources from some of CHN’s member organizations.
CHN:
- CHN: We Will Continue to Oppose Blank Check Funding and Lawless Actions by ICE and Border Patrol
- CHN opposes DHS reconciliation bill + $350 million for enhanced ICE enforcement
- CHN Opposes Senate Amendment That Threatens Service Providers and Localities
- blogpost: Fund Care, Not ICE – Saying no to abuse of power
- CHN to Senate: CHN Opposes Reconciliation Bill Funding ICE, Attacks on Basic Needs
- Put Human Needs First, Not Attacks on Our Immigrant Neighbors and Wasteful Pentagon Spending
- CHN to the Senate: Oppose Budget Resolution That Paves Way for Additional Funding for ICE and CBP
- CHN to Senate: Reject DHS Bill Without Accountability
- CHN Opposes Additional Funding for ICE in FY26 DHS Bill on House Floor
- CHN to Congress: oppose any funding, including another CR, for ICE — and support real reforms.
CHN and many others: Taxpayers Are Not ICE’ Cash Cow (on House adding even more money to ICE in their DHS Appropriations bill on top of reconciliation), No funds for ICE and Border Patrol May 2026 Letter from 1,112 Organizations, May 15 Group Letter Opposing Reconciliation and Amendments, Disability Organizations Call on Congress to Prioritize Care, Access, Representation and Basic Dignity, not Violence and Detention, More Than 250 Organizations Urge the House to Prioritize Children’s Safety in DHS, and What Does Justice Look Like in a Renegotiated DHS Spending Bill?, a memorandum about needed reforms from CHN and several other organizations.
CHN Action: TAKE ACTION: Stop Congress from funding ICE terror, Tell Congress: Stop ICE from terrorizing our kids, Tell Congress: Stop ICE’s lawless attacks on our communities and Demand Congress stop funding the inhumane and lethal tactics of DHS and ICE amidst ongoing investigations.
Center for American Progress: RELEASE: Congressional Republicans’ Misplaced Priorities Hand Trump $70B Mass Deportation Slush Fund Instead of Providing Relief for Americans
Center for Law and Social Policy: 430+ Organizations Call on Congress to Pass Meaningful Protections for Families, including Sensitive Locations, Documenting the Impact of Harmful Immigration Policies During the Trump Administration’s Second Term, Even the Playground Isn’t Safe, Caregiving in Crisis, and CLASP urges Senate to reject funding bill that will endanger more lives. And see CTAN: Children’s Advocates to Congress: Additional Funding for DHS is a Cruel Misuse of Public Funding and a Direct Attack on Children and Families, Children’s Advocates to Congress: “There is No Appropriate Amount of Time for Children to be Detained” and Stop Terrorizing our Kids: How Immigration Agents are Harming Children and What Policymakers Can Do to Stop It
Child Welfare League of America: Hot Topic: Immigration Reform for Children and Families and No New ICE Funding
Children’s Defense Fund: CDF to Congress: No More Funding for DHS Brutality
Food Research & Action Center: Nation’s Budget Must Strengthen Families, Communities, Not Cause Harm
Friends Committee on National Legislation: Congress Must Not Look Away from ICE Cruelty, From Immigration Abuses to a Future of Safety and Dignity, Legislative Ask – Protect Civil Liberties and Community Safety and We mourn state killings and demand justice, not terror
First Focus Campaign for Children: Farm Bill, DHS funding threaten millions of children, Child advocate blasts Senate measure to fund immigration enforcement, Organizations Urge Lawmakers to Prioritize Children Before Vote on DHS Funding, Free the Children – Again, MESSAGE: Reject DHS funding bill until children are protected and Tell your Senators: Pass funding for kids, NOT ICE
Futures Without Violence: Enough Is Enough and Access to Healthcare for Noncitizen Survivors: Limitations on Medicaid/CHIP & ACA Marketplace
Hispanic Federation: Hispanic Federation Condemns another killing by federal agents and demands the U.S. Senate provide guardrails and oversight to Department of Homeland Security and JCPA Statement on Growing Militarization of Federal Immigration Enforcement
Justice in Aging: Final Organizational Letter: Congress Must Stop Harmful Immigration Enforcement Policies and Prioritize Health Care and Programs for Older Adults
LCCHR: The Leadership Conference Backs Withholding DHS Funding and Demands Civil Rights-Based Reforms
National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd: On Minnesota and Mass Deportation Efforts Across the Country – Firm in Our Commitment to Justice, Love and Solidarity
National Association of Social Workers: In aftermath of ICE shooting, NASW Minnesota says there must be truth, justice and accountability, NASW Statement on the Shooting Death of Alex Pretti by Federal Agents, and NASW Maine Chapter Testifies in Support of Bill to Keep ICE Agents Out of Schools, Other Public Places
National Education Association: NEA Urges Senate to Reject Budget Resolution Prioritizing ICE, NEA urges representatives to oppose DHS funding, Make schools, churches, and hospitals protected spaces from ICE, NEA Files Emergency Motion to Stop ICE Enforcement Near Schools, and Speak Out Against Trump’s Aggressive ICE Raids and Attacks on Communities
National Immigration Law Center: May 15 Group Letter Opposing Reconciliation and Amendments, Tell Congress: No More Tax Dollars for ICE & CBP. ICE & CBP Out of Our Communities, Not a dollar for DHS Resource-Hub, and with partners: ICE and CBP Are Swimming In Money. We Say: No More
National Low-Income Housing Coalition: NLIHC Urges Senate to Oppose Budget Reconciliation Bill Creating New Funds for Immigration Enforcement, Oppose Amendments that Harm Immigrant Communities
National Network to End Domestic Violence: NNEDV condemns violence unlawful actions of ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota and other communities
NETWORK: Faith-Based Letter on DHS Reconciliation Bill, Faith Leaders: Budget Reconciliation Bill Continues “Trajectory of Harm” and reel about Interfaith Immigration Network lobby day, NETWORK Responds to 2026 Budget Legislation, and Tell Congress: No More Money for ICE or CBP without Meaningful Change
National Health Care for the Homeless Council: Codifying Protections for “Sensitive Locations:” Ensuring Safe Access to Care and Strategies to Improve Access to Care and Staff Morale
National Priorities Project: Congress Doubled ICE & CBP Budgets and Cut Legal Immigration, on Bluesky: $170 billion for mass deportations and detention could fund Medicaid for 6 million children and 4 million adults for four years and nearly 400,000 livable-wage jobs for single-parent families with two kids for four years — also on Instagram (1, 2), and with NILC on Instagram: This or That (human needs tradeoffs)
National Womens Law Center: 80 National Gender Justice Organizations Urge Congress to End ICE and CBP Abuse and Tell Congress: Support Families – Not ICE
Popular Democracy: No More Tax Dollars for ICE & CBP, and on the CHN blog: Not a Penny More for ICE, Wars, or Billionaires—Fund Communities Instead
Public Citizen: House Must Reject Trump’s Personal Wishlist Bill, DHS Shutdown Ends With a Blow to Trump’s Brutality and in the DC Journal: Republican Push For ICE Over Affordability Leaves Americans Dumbfounded
RESULTS: Congress must fund health education and housing and stand against abuse of power
Southern Poverty Law Center: Vote no DHS funding package
UnidosUS: Congress Must Protect Civil Rights and Place Clear Guardrails on DHS, Community Guide to Accountability After Harm by Federal Immigration Agents, and DHS Enforcement Harms Tracker
Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice: Statement on Reconciliation 2.0 for $70 Billion More in Funding
Zero to Three: Tell Congress: Protect Children and Keep Families Together and Supporting Young Children Affected by Family Separation Policies
Current CHN Members can be found here.
*If your organization is a member and would like to see your statement added, please reach out to Rebecca Vucic (rvucic@chn.org)
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