HomeMy WebLinkAbout2026-012 ICE and CBP FundingRESOLUTION NO. 2026-012
A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR AN END TO LAWLESS ICE AND CBP SURGES ACROSS THE COUNTY AND CALLING
ON CONGRESS TO WITHHOLD ANY FUNDING FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WITHOUT
MEANINGFUL AND SIGNIFIGANT GUARDRAILLS.
The Trump Administration's assault on communities in the name of immigration enforcement is eroding our
constitutional rights and endangering residents, and
Immigration authorities are using increasingly dangerous tactics, such as engaging in unprovoked violence,
excessively using force, including in some cases, killing civilians, and deploying chemical weapons, and
In multiple cities, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") and U.S. Customs and
Border Patrol ("CBP") have violently arrested civilians, including U.S. citizens, and deployed chemical weapons
without warning in residential areas, harming school children and local law enforcement, and
From September 2025 through January 2026, immigration agents have shot at least nine individuals, including
three who died as a result, Alex Pretti, a U.S. citizen and an ICU nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital in
Minneapolis, Renee Good, a U.S. citizen and mother of three in Minneapolis, and Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, a
father of two, in Chicago, and
Immigration agents have terrorized and abducted students on their way to and from school, unleashed
chemical agents on students and staff on school grounds, leading to children being too afraid to attend school,
which is a right guaranteed to all students in all 50 states, and
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 ("OBBBA") gave ICE and CBP $170 billion for anti -immigrant
enforcement, detention, and deportation at the expense of urgent needs in our community, including housing
and healthcare
Conditions in immigration detention facilities are rapidly deteriorating with dangerous overcrowding and
detained individuals and advocates reporting medical neglect, substandard food, inadequate access to clean
water, and overuse of solitary confinement, and
About ninety percent of people being detained are in for -profit facilities, which have a long record of cutting
corners on essential services to reap profits, and
Since President Trump took office on January 20, 2025, an unprecedented thirty-seven people have died in the
custody of ICE, including several deaths that may have been preventable; and
The immigration system is a civil system not a criminal system and immigration detention is intended to be a
non -punitive system.
ORDER OF THE COUNCIL
IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that:
1. The council calls for an end to Border Patrol deployments and an end to ICE and CBP's lawless surges in
cities across the country that are undermining public safety.
2. The council calls on the United States Congress to not provide any additional funding
for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") without including meaningful and significant
guardrails to rein in the agency and how it operates in communities.
3. The council expresses support for guardrails to be included in any funding bill for DHS that would:
A.) End lawless enforcement including by requiring DHS to get a warrant, stop using masked agents
for immigration enforcement actions, stop the targeting of people based on their race, language or
accent, place of employment, or location at the time of the apprehension, and prohibiting
enforcement at sensitive locations like daycares and schools, houses of worship, and hospitals;
B.) End detention abuses by ending the use of private, for -profit detention prisons, prohibiting
funding for facilities that threaten the health, safety, or due process rights of detained people, and
restoring access to bond hearings;
C.) Preserve the ability of local and state jurisdictions to investigate and prosecute potential crimes
and use of excessive force incidents. Require that evidence is preserved and shared with jurisdictions.
D.) Require the consent of States and localities to conduct large-scale operations outside of
targeted immigration enforcement.
4. The council calls on Congress to make deep and meaningful cuts to the $170 billion in funding given to
DHS in the OBBBA and redirect those funds to urgent needs like housing and healthcare.
5. The council calls on Congress to deliberate a plan to restructure DHS to bring more accountability to
this sprawling agency, to ensure that the Department's essential national security and public safety
functions, including cyber security and emergency management, can be separated from immigration
enforcement, and to completely rebuild immigration enforcement agencies from the ground up to stop
the culture of lawlessness and ensure guardrails and accountability.
6. The clerk of the council is directed to send a copy of this motion to each member of the Minnesota
congressional delegation.
Passed this 9tn day of February 2026
Sara Ion, City Clerk/Council Secretary