What can Congress members do to fight against these attacks and protect immigrant communities?

1. Oversight visits to ICE detention centers
2. Restrict and reject more funding for ICE
3. Oppose anti-immigrant legislation

Trump’s budget rewards states that collaborate with ICE and participate in federal programs like 287g, which allows local law enforcement to act as immigration agents.

@the-ilrc.bsky.social's new resource documents the expansion of police/ICE collaboration

www.ilrc.org/immigration-...

Trump’s budget bill included $45 BILLION for the wasteful and deadly border wall - and another $30 BILLION to hire more agents, bonuses, & operations related to detention and deportation.

Here's @immigrantjustice.bsky.social breakdown of this harmful new law.

immigrantjustice.org/research/exp...

At the same time, communities are fighting back and working to shut down detention centers.

@detentionwatchnetwork.org's Communities Not Cages campaign supports groups on the ground organizing against immigrant detention.

www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/take-action/...

Last month, Trump’s budget bill became law, which included $45 BILLION for immigration detention.

Across the country, we’ve seen ICE agents kidnap people off the streets and take them hundreds of miles away from their family and legal counsel.

www.npr.org/2025/07/03/g...

As immigrant communities continue to face direct attacks by ICE, members of Congress have a role to play by calling for transparency, accountability, and due process.