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We need you to take action NOW! The Trump administration has been aggressively expanding the immigration detention system in new and horrific ways for nearly two years. Now they intend to open a brand new facility located on a toxic waste site in Louisiana, where ICE plans to detain children and families. Right now, communities in Louisiana are fighting back to stop the La Salle Alexandria Airport Family and Child Detention facility from opening, and they need your help!

Tell your Member of Congress to cosponsor H.R.7190, the Melt ICE Act, introduced by Representative Ramirez and Representative Clarke. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operates a sprawling network of more than 200 immigrant detention facilities, including local jails, state and federal prisons, tent cities, and military bases across the country, that arbitrarily detain tens of thousands of people every day in inhumane and punitive conditions. ICE subjects people to unconscionable conditions, including medical neglect, overcrowding, horrendous conditions of confinement, and rampant transfers that disappear people into the detention system, sowing confusion and cutting people off from their loved ones and support networks.

In June, Congress passed the S.2 reconciliation bill that provides ICE and Border Patrol with $70 billion in new funding for mass detention and deportation on top of last year’s unprecedented funds. Now Congress is debating whether to give these same agencies an additional $30 billion to carry out the administration's anti-immigrant agenda through the Fiscal Year 2027 appropriations process. Now Congress is debating once again whether to give these same agencies an additional up to $30 billion to carry out the administration's anti-immigrant agenda through the Fiscal Year 2027 appropriations process.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are expanding their existing detention network beyond jails, prisons, and military bases to include large warehouse and industrial spaces for mass detention. Members of Congress can do something to stop this! Urge your members of Congress to use their power to say NO to warehouse detention!

Join us in urging your Members of Congress to block the administration’s devastating attacks on immigrants. There are already more than 68,000 people locked up in ICE detention. If Trump’s multi-layered detention expansion plan is realized, tens of thousands more will be impacted. Act now!