February 6th, 2024
Washington D.C., United States – This past Sunday, U.S. senators released a legislative package that would hand over an additional $14 billion to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This proposed funding to increase surveillance, detention, and deportation is joined by legislative proposals that would severely limit the […]
December 11th, 2023
WASHINGTON – New reporting today shows that the White House is in conversations with Congressional Republicans about trading the human rights of migrants for more deadly walls, detention and wars. The policies on the table include a transit ban, keeping people at the border from accessing asylum, and nationwide expedited removal by the Department of […]
November 29th, 2023
The Defund Hate campaign demands elected officials reject any additional funding to ICE and CBP and fulfill civic duty of providing for U.S. communities WASHINGTON – As a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators continue negotiations on President Biden’s supplemental funding request this week, immigration groups and progressive organizations are continuing to urge lawmakers to oppose […]
November 16th, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C – This week, members of Congress managed to pass a short-term spending bill that will fund the U.S. Department of Homeland Security until February 2, avoiding a government shutdown. This continuing resolution did not include supplemental funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s detention, deportation, and surveillance operations – a victory for […]
October 23rd, 2023
UNITED STATES – Last Friday, the White House requested $8.7 billion dollars in additional funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including $4.5 billion dollars for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and $2.5 billion for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This funding would add over a thousand border patrol agents to the […]
October 10th, 2023
United States – Last week, news reports revealed that the Biden administration will waive 26 environmental laws – including the Endangered Species Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, and the Clean Air Act – in order to build an additional 20 miles of the southern border wall in the state of Texas. […]
October 2nd, 2023
Washington DC – Over the weekend, members of Congress and President Biden passed a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the federal government until November 17th and avoid a government shutdown. The continuing resolution did not include additional funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) detention, enforcement and surveillance operations, a victory for Defund […]
August 17th, 2023
United States – Earlier this month, the White House sent a request to Congress for supplemental funding for the last three months of 2023 which included more than two billion additional dollars for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This funding would create new, and misleadingly named, “community-based residential centers” that would essentially reinstate […]
July 28th, 2023
WASHINGTON — Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations advanced legislation for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spending for fiscal year 2024, which includes significantly increased funding that will be given to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) — federal agencies that have systematically proven to […]
May 31st, 2023
United States – Over the past month, Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress have released immigration policy proposals that make trade-offs jeopardizing thousands of people’s lives, and will likely funnel billions more taxpayer dollars to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Whether these proposals are concessions to far-right hatred or […]
