Bloody Week Triggers National Revolt Against ICE Funding
They are zip-tying children and dragging people from cars. Now, a coalition representing millions of Americans is telling Congress: Enough is enough. Read the letter that could shut down DHS.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a powerful ultimatum delivered to Capitol Hill today, a massive coalition of over 100 civil rights and human rights organizations demanded that Congress immediately halt all funding increases for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The letter, led by groups including the ACLU and the National Immigration Law Center, comes as the nation reels from a week of “lawlessness” that saw federal agents kill a mother of three in Minneapolis and gun down two others in Portland.
A Week of Unleashed Violence
The coalition’s demand follows the January 7 killing of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and widow of a military veteran, who was shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis while dropping her child off at school. Just twenty-four hours later, federal agents in Portland, Oregon, opened fire on a vehicle outside a hospital, wounding two people.
While DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has characterized the Minneapolis shooting as a response to “domestic terrorism,” bystand…