January 27, 2026

Dear Members of Congress,

We the undersigned 1,025 organizations write to express our horror, outrage and deep grief about the news that federal agents have executed a human being in broad daylight on the streets of Minneapolis. How many more people have to die, how many more lies have to be told, and how many more children must be used as bait and abducted, before Congress fulfills its responsibilities and stops these out-of-control agencies from continuing to violently attack our immigrant communities and communities of color, as well as their many allies and supporters?

We demand an immediate halt in all funding for these deadly operations until the violence, abuses, and deaths in American communities and in immigration detention centers stop. Congress must refuse to provide one dollar to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol through the appropriations process and immediately take action to revoke the tens of billions already given through last summer’s reconciliation bill.

We demand that you act decisively and show DHS and the communities you serve that this cruelty and lawlessness is unacceptable and must end now. When federal agents are patrolling the streets of American cities and gunning people down in broad daylight, the bare minimum response is to stop the funding that enables these violent agencies to carry out these atrocities. You have the power and responsibility to stop this. What you do now will be remembered for future generations – take a stand today while you still have the power to do so.

Sincerely,

Detention Watch Network
Bend the Arc: Jewish Action
National Immigration Project
National Immigrant Justice Center
National Immigration Law Center
United We Dream
Amnesty International USA

National Organizations

50501
AfghanEvac
18 Millon Rising
198 methods
A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment & Healing)
ABC Health Coalition
About Face: Veterans Against the War
Action Center on Race and the Economy
Advancement Project
African Communities Together (ACT)
AFT
Alianza Americas
All* Above All
Alliance of Baptists
Amazon Watch
America’s Voice
American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
American Atheists
American Friends Service Committee
American Humanist Association
American Medical Women’s Association
American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)
Americans for Financial Reform
Americans for Justice in Palestine action (AJP Action)
Americans for Tax Fairness
Amica Center for Immigrant Rights
Amnesty International USA
ANAR
Animals Are Sentient Beings, Inc.
Arab American Institute (AAI)
Arab Resource & Organizing Center Action (AROC Action)
Armenian-American Advancement Network
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC
Asian Law Caucus
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
Auntie’s Coalition
Austin Trauma Therapy Center
Autistic People of Color Fund
Balanced Imperfection
Bend the Arc
Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP)
Brave New Films
Camino Alliance
Caring Ambassadors Program
CASA
Catalyst Project
Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Economic Democracy
Center for Gender & Refugee Studies
Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
Center for Progressive Reform
Center for Story-based Strategy
Center for Victims of Torture
CenterLink
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante
Child Care for Every Family Network
Children’s Health Watch
Christ Episcopal Church
Christians for a Free Palestine
Church World Service
Civic Shout
Clean Energy Action
Climate Hawks Vote
Climate Justice Alliance
Climate Refugees
Coalition for Sign Language Equity in Technology (CoSET)
Coalition on Human Needs
CommonDefense.us
Communities First Consulting, LLC
Communities United for Status & Protection (CUSP)
Community Change Action
Community for Children
Community Justice Exchange
Council for Global Equality
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action
Defending Rights & Dissent
DemCast USA
Democratic Messaging Project
Detention Watch Network
Disability Law United
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
Doctors Against Genocide
Doctors for Camp Closure
Dragonfly Partners LLC
Dream Tank
Drug Policy Alliance
Economic Policy Institute
Economic Security Project Action
Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC)
Equal Rights Advocates
Esperanza United
Eye Care International
Facente Consulting
Fair Share America
Fair Work, P.C.
Faith for Justice
Faith in Action
Families United for Accountability
Family Values @ Work
Family Values At Work Action
Feminist Generation
Fight for the Future
Food & Water Watch
Food Empowerment Project
Franciscan Action Network
Free Press Action
Free Speech For People
Freedom for Immigrants (FFI)
Freedom To Thrive
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Friends of the Earth Action
Fuzhou America
Get Free
Global Exchange
Grassroots Asians Rising
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Grassroots International
Green Map System
GreenFaith
Guttmacher Institute
Haitian Bridge Alliance
Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network
Hands United
HEAL – Health Environment Agriculture Labor – Food Alliance
Health GAP
Health in Partnership
Healthy Schools Campaign
HIAS
Hijos de Inmigrantes
Hindus for Human Rights Action
Human Rights First
If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice
IfNotNow Movement
IMEU Policy Project
Immigrant Defense Project
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
Immigration Equality Action Fund
Immigration Law & Justice Network
Income Movement
Indivisible
Institute for Policy Studies Climate Policy Program
International Refugee Assistance Project
Japanese American Citizens League
Jewish Voice for Peace
Jewish Voice for Peace Action
Jobs to Move America
Jobs With Justice
Just Detention International
Just Solutions
Justice in Aging
Justice in Motion
Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)
Latin America/Caribbean Committee of the Loretto Community
Lawyers for Good Government
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
Learning Lab for Resiliency
Little Lobbyists
Local Progress
Loretto Link
LULAC Council 5296A
Make the Road States
MARBE SA
mBOLDen Change
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
Mi Familia Vota
Miltner Immigration Law
Mobile Pathways
MomsRising
MoveOn
MPower Change Action Fund
Mundo Management
Muslim Advocates
Muslim Counterpublics Lab
Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)
Muslims for Just Futures
Mutual Aid Immigration Network
NAACP
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)
National Academy of Medicine
National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association (NAAPIMHA)
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF)
National Association of Social Workers
National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD)
National Council of Asian Pacific Americans
National Council of Jewish Women
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Employment Law Project (NELP)
National Harm Reduction Coalition
National Health Law Program
National Hispanic Health Foundation
National Hispanic Media Coalition
National Immigrant Justice Center
National Immigration Law Center
National Immigration Project
National Kidney Foundation
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice
National Lawyers Guild
National Low Income Housing Coalition
National Network To End Domestic Violence
National Network of Abortion Funds
National Newcomer Network
National Nurses United
National Parents Union
National Partnership for New Americans
National Partnership for Women & Families
National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies
National Urban League
National Women’s Law Center
Native Organizers Alliance
NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice
Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies
Network to Advance Abolition in Social Work
Never Again Action
New Disabled South
New York Society for Ethical Culture
No Detention Centers in Michigan
Nonprofit Professional Employees Union, IFPTE Local 70
North American Climate, Conservation and Environment (NACCE)
NOW Suffolk
Oil & Gas Action Network
Oil Change International
Organized Power in Numbers
Organizing Black
P Street
Partners for Dignity and Rights
Pax Christi USA
Peace Action
Peace Catalyst International
People Power United
People’s Action Institute
Physicians for Reproductive Health
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Planned Parenthood Action Fund
Poder Latinx
Popular Democracy
Presente.org
Prevention Institute
Progressives for Democracy in America
Project On Government Oversight
Project South
Public Advocacy for Kids (PAK)
Public Citizen
Public Counsel
Public Rights Project
Rachel Carson Council
Rainforest Action Network
Red Wine & Blue
ReFrame
Reframe Health and Justice
Refugee Advocacy Lab
Refugee Congress
Refugee Council USA
Refugees International
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
Reproductive Freedom for All
Revolución Violeta
Rising Majority
Rogan’s List
Rural GroundGame
RuralOrganizing.org
Save EPA
Science Accountability Institute
Secure Elections Network
Secure Justice
SEIU 32BJ
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign
Showing Up for Racial Justice
Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fubd (SALDEF)
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas: Justice Team
SMW legal / GiraSol Nola
Social Justice Legal Foundation
Social Workers for Immigration Justice (SWIJ)
Society of Spooky Ladies
Sommers Schwartz, P.C.
South Asian American Justice Collaborative
South Asian Public Health Association (SAPHA)
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)
Southeast Asian Freedom Network
Southeast Dignity Not Detention Coalition
Southeast Immigrant Rights Network (SEIRN)
Southern Border Communities Coalition
Stand Up for Science
Stand.earth
Stop AAPI Hate
Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice
Sunrise Movement
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
Tahirih Justice Center
The Advocates for Human Rights
The Alliance for Diplomacy and Justice
The Chamberlain Network
The Clergy Coalition for Liberation
The Episcopal Church
The Festival Center
The Human Trafficking Legal Center
The Sentencing Project
The Shalom Center
The Sikh Coalition
The Workers Circle
Transgender Law Center
Turtle Island Restoration Network
UndocuBlack Network
Unitarian Universalist Association
Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community
Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice
United Church of Christ
United Farm Workers
United for a Fair Economy
United Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW)
United Parent Leaders Action Network (UPLAN)
United We Dream
Unity
Uri L’Tzedek
URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action
USAHello
Utopian Visions
ValorUS
VECINA
Vera Institute of Justice
Vision Y Compromiso
Washington Office on Latin America
We Are All America (WAAA)
Weaving Voices for Health & Justice
Welcome With Dignity Campaign
Win Without War
Women Donors Network
Women’s March
Women’s Refugee Commission
Working Families Power
WSLS Immigrant Rights Clinic
X-Lab
Yankee National Party
Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights

Additional regional, state, and local signatories omitted