The Progress Report: February 13
Trump’s ICE makes Americans less safe.
Trump’s ICE makes Americans less safe. They should be held to the same standard of accountability as any other government employee or law enforcement agent.
THE CASE
With DHS running out of funding today, we must demand accountability and expose the way Trump’s ICE is hurting Americans. Trump’s ICE and Border Patrol have been killing people in broad daylight, locking up kids, and making our communities less safe. That’s why Democrats are fighting to stop agents from operating with total impunity, demanding reforms on masks, IDs, and judicial warrants. But Republicans in Congress are blocking progress to hold Trump’s untrained agents accountable.
KEY FACTS AND DATA
Trump contends his enforcement operations are targeting immigrants who are a threat to public safety, but law enforcement leaders say the administration’s enforcement efforts are making people less safe.
Minneapolis Police Chief O’Hara on the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics: “[They] are very obviously not safe, and it is generating a lot of outrage and fear in the community.” [CBS News]
O’Hara on the public’s fear of calling 911: “That’s a real threat to everyone in the community because if immigrants or people who look like they might be immigrants are being targeted because a robber or somebody up to no good thinks they might not call the police, that makes everybody less safe.” [KSTP]
Support for the Trump administration’s approach to immigration enforcement is collapsing.
62% of Americans say Trump has gone “too far” in sending federal immigration agents into U.S. cities. [AP]
By a 16-point margin (52% to 36%), Americans want Congress to withhold DHS funding in the absence of reforms to hold ICE accountable. [GBAO]
63% of Americans disapprove of immigration agents’ wearing masks. An equal percentage of Americans believe the federal government has gone too far in disregarding local and state governments versus just 37% who say the same of states’ approach to the federal government. [NBC]
Trump and Republicans in Congress took hundreds of billions of dollars from health care and food assistance programs and gave it to ICE to terrorize our communities.
60% of voters do not want to spend more on ICE and would prefer to re-allocate that money to Medicaid. [GBAO]
60% of Americans are concerned that the administration is cutting billions in funding for programs that help meet Americans’ basic needs to enable ICE’s abuses. [Navigator]
CALL TO ACTION
Call Senate Republicans at (202) 224-3121 and ask them to support Democrats’ 10 commonsense reforms to hold ICE accountable, fund DHS, and avoid a government shutdown.
Top Targets: Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).