Your tax dollars are funding harm.
Help us protect communities.
ICE’s 2026 budget increased by 400%.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was already the largest federal law enforcement agency in the United States. Now, with a staggering $28 billion budget, they have more money than most militaries on the planet.
17 million people are losing their healthcare. Food assistance programs like SNAP have been slashed by $187 billion. Veterans' services, like crisis lines and VA healthcare benefits have also faced budget cuts. At least a quarter of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck as the costs of living soar.
Deporting 1 million people annually could cost taxpayers $88 billion– nearly one trillion over a decade. Is this the best use of our resources?
Instead of investing in our schools, healthcare, or housing– the things that actually build safe and thriving communities– billions of dollars are being funneled into raids, cages, and surveillance that tear our families and neighborhoods apart.
What ICE Costs US
+$54 billion
The cost of the immigration policing and detention system in 2025 — not including the cost of deputizing local police for immigration enforcement.
Our communities pay the price
The result: only 5% of People Detained By ICE Have Violent Convictions.
And more than 170 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE.
ICE is a violent and rogue agency
We’ve seen it. We’ve lived it. ICE operates as a violent and rogue agency, with free rein to kidnap our neighbors, raid schools and hospitals, and bust down our doors without accountability.
Minneapolis’ Metro Surge Operation cost us $18 million a week. Chicago’s Operation Midway Blitz cost us $59 million over two months. Los Angeles’ enforcement surges cost us nearly $120 million.
While ICE gets a blank check to wreak havoc, the rest of us are stretching ours and left struggling to survive.
We’re footing the bill for ICE’s violence while being denied opportunities and support to survive and thrive.
Stand Up
Across the country, people are rising up. Every act of ICE violence, every family torn apart, every raid, and every dollar ripped from our communities pushes more people to one undeniable truth: ICE does not keep us safe.
Safety doesn’t come from raids, cages, or surveillance. It comes from strong communities with affordable housing, access to food, healthcare, and quality schools that give our kids a real future.
Help us end ICE’s reign of violence and invest in a future that protects and uplifts us all.
ICE has stolen enough from us.
It’s time to stop funding their violence and start investing in what actually keeps us safe: our communities.
WHO WE ARE
At Mijente Support Committee (MSC) we believe that lasting change happens when everyday people have the tools, knowledge, and relationships needed to lead in their communities. Through leadership development programs, narrative and cultural projects, research, and community-based initiatives, MSC works to strengthen grassroots organizing and expand the imagination of what’s possible.
Mijente Support Committee is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports the growth, leadership, and collective power of Latino, Chicano and Caribbean communities in the United States and Puerto Rico.