On behalf of its millions of members, Common Cause, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the National Urban League (NUL), the NAACP, and the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation sent a letter to congressional leadership demanding no additional funding for the Department of Homeland Security without a massive overhaul of ICE operations that have led to deadly violence nationwide. 

The groups cite the killing of two U.S. citizens in 2026 — Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti — by federal immigration enforcement in addition to at least 53 deaths in immigration detention facilities in 2025. They argue these deaths are the foreseeable result of an agency that has expanded rapidly without meaningful guardrails or oversight. 

The call comes as Congress negotiates DHS funding following a short-term extension. The advocates argue temporary legislative fixes do not address the underlying crisis and warn against approving new funds without binding conditions. 

The groups are calling on congressional leadership to withhold funding for DHS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement unless the following conditions are met: 

• A nationwide halt on ICE surge operations; 

• Full cooperation with independent investigations into the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and other civil rights violations; 

• The resignation or removal of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem; and 

• Comprehensive, structural reforms to impose enforceable accountability across DHS. 

Common Cause launched multiple accountability campaigns to fire Kristi Noem et investigate ICE after Border Patrol’s killings in Minnesota. Since then, the organization has taken its people-powered message to the streets of Washington, D.C., with a mobile billboard, backed by thousands of Americans writing to their representatives urging immediate action from Congress. 

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