Democrats! Hold Fast! Hold ICE/CBP Politically Accountable.
Call BOTH of your Senators.
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Call Script
My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
As my [Senator/Representative] I ask that you hold fast against the DHS Appropriations bill as it currently stands. Not one additional dime for ICE/CBP. Do not allow the DHS bill to become law without strong, clear, and significant provisions that rein in ICE/CBP.
You must get ICE and CBP out of our communities, end funding for their brutality, and create clear guardrails to stop warrantless arrests, racial and ethnic profiling, and raids at sensitive locations like schools, hospitals, or homes.
As a voter, I want you to know that I am fed up with Democratic Party leaders who posture strong in public while actually cutting backroom deals to appease and please the big dark money donors who fund both parties.
Background
The 2026 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill that funds ICE,CBP, and other agencies is currently being filibustered in the Senate by Democrats. As we asked them to, Democrats are demanding that provisions reining in the crimes and abuses of ICE/CBP be added to the bill, and that budget increases be stricken from it. While the resulting DHS shutdown does not halt or even limit current ICE/CBP operations, it does inconvenience DHS and disrupt some activities. More importantly, it puts political pressure on the Republican Party.
At the present time, Republican leaders in the Senate do not (yet) have enough votes to squash the Democratic filibuster, so both sides are digging in for a long political struggle of will and determination. If Democrats hold out long enough to force Republicans to accept some significant restrictions on ICE/CBP abuses, it will be a political check and sanction on unrestrained and unconstitutional tyranny. But if Democrats cave in and accept a DHS bill with only minor, meaningless, reforms, it will signal to the MAGA regime that they are politically free to continue expanding their illegal seizure of power and suppression of our traditional freedoms and civil and human rights.
We must urge our members of Congress to hold fast against ethnic cleansing, racial injustice, ICE/CBP abuses, and authoritarian usurpation of power. And since this is shaping up as a long political struggle of attrition, we are going to have to continue urging our representatives in Congress to hold fast week after week, for as long as it takes.
Late Monday, Democratic congressional leaders sent Trump a counter-offer to end the shutdown. As of this writing, the contents of that offer are secret. If the secret offer contains strong, clear, and significant provisions to rein in ICE/CBP, we applaud that effort. But we must make it clear to our elected representatives that we are fed up with Democratic Party leaders who posture strong in public while actually cutting backroom deals to appease and please the big dark money donors who fund both parties.
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