We Are Here to Defund Hate

We Are Here to Defund Hate
The Defund Hate Campaign is led by a coalition of organizations that represent directly impacted immigrant communities, faith leaders, and civil and immigrant rights advocates.
We are committed to divestment from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), agencies that tear apart loved ones and harm our communities. Instead, we want our tax dollars used to strengthen our families and communities. We are committed to investment in education, housing, green infrastructure and health care programs that create thriving communities.
Our elected officials say they care about our communities but, at the same time, they choose to fund immigration enforcement, deadly immigration jails and border militarization. Members of Congress must vote against wasting taxpayer dollars on the abusive and deadly immigration enforcement system. They must be held accountable. They must show up for the immigrant community.
Defund Hate
Campaign Goals
- Decrease the money going to ICE and CBP
- Demand investments in our communities that build our people up and help us all thrive
- Shift the political landscape away from constant funding increases for ICE and CBP and an enforcement-only response to migration
The Defund Hate Campaign has blocked nearly $12 billion from ICE and CBP to date. We’re committed to blocking more and redirecting that investment to strengthen families and communities.


“Congress must serve as a check on President Trump’s white nationalist agenda that aims to exclude immigrants and others from the promise of our democracy.”
Rabbi Jason Kimelman-Block, Washington Director of Bend the Arc: Jewish Action
Members of the Defund Hate Campaign Coalition
- Afghans for a Better Tomorrow
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Alianza Americas
- American Friends Service Committee
- Amnesty International
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice
- Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence
- Bend the Arc: Jewish Action
- Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
- Bridges Faith Initiative
- Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
- Center for Victims of Torture
- Centro de Trabajadores
- Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)
- Church World Service
- Detention Watch Network
- Earth Justice
- 18 Million Rising
- Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM)
- Freedom for Immigrants
- Friends Committee on National Legislation
- Generation Progress
- Human Rights Watch
- Immigrant Defense Project
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center
- Immigrant Youth Coalition
- Indivisible
- Inter-Faith Committee on Latin America
- International Students Working Group of the Graduate Workers of Columbia University
- La Red – Faith in Action
- La Unión Del Pueblo Entero
- Latin America Working Group (LAWG)
- Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
- Lights for Liberty
- Make the Road NY
- Minnesota 8
- Moms Rising
- Movement for Justice in el Barrio
- MoveOn
- NAKASEC
- National Bail Fund Network
- National Center for Lesbian Rights
- National Council of Jewish Women
- National Immigrant Justice Center
- National Immigration Law Center
- National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild
- National Iranian American Council
- National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice
- National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies
- New York Immigration Coalition
- Queer Detainee Empowerment Project
- Quixote Center
- Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
- Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
- Sierra Club
- Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)
- Southern Border Communities Coalition
- South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT)
- Southeast Immigrant Rights Network (SEIRN)
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- The Immigration Hub
- T’ruah
- Tsuru for Solidarity
- Undocublack
- Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
- UltraViolet
- United We Dream
- Voces Unidas Rio Grande Valley
- We Belong Together