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#DefundHate: Stand up to ICE & CBP

#DefundHate: Stand up to ICE & CBP

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Tell Congress to #DefundHate and stand up to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The budget for ICE has increased by a billion dollars in the last two years, extending its reach well beyond the border. It already has enough taxpayer money to detain 350,000 to 400,000 asylum-seeking migrants. Every day, tens of thousands of people — including asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants — are detained by ICE and CBP has jurisdiction over two-thirds of the American population. Beyond its unprecedented reach into our daily lives, this agency is notorious for racial discrimination, use of excessive force, and illegal search and seizure — in short, for treating people trying to secure a better life for themselves as potential enemy combatants, rather than as humans with rights and dignity to be respected and upheld. Both ICE and CBP detain children, separate families, terrorize communities and have a long history of fiscal mismanagement.