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WASHINGTON – MoveOn Civic Action, Indivisible, Public Citizen, Movimiento Migrante DC, ACLU, Interfaith Alliance, FreeDC, and allied organizations, led thousands of advocates, faith leaders, and community members Tuesday evening outside the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters for an “ICE Out For Good” rally and candlelight vigil demanding accountability and an end to ICE’s unchecked violence.
As new DHS funding requests will be debated this month, Senators Chris Murphy, Chris Van Hollen, Alex Padilla, and Ed Markey, joined by Representatives Maxwell Frost, addressed the crowd and called for Congressional support of urgent proposals to rein in immigration enforcement practices that have fueled fear, trauma, and harm in communities across the country.
Rally organizers are among those leading the charge to push Congress to act to meaningfully hold ICE accountable in the wake of escalating violence tied to ICE operations. Yesterday, the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) announced its members “will oppose all funding for immigration enforcement in any appropriation bills until meaningful reforms are enacted to end militarized policing practices.”
In the days since the killing of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old wife and mother of three, more than 1,200 peaceful, nonviolent protests have taken place nationwide, reflecting growing public outrage and pressure on federal leaders to change course.
Below are key moments from today’s rally and vigil:
Senator Chris Murphy, said:
“The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America…He’s trying to convince you that immigrants are the greatest threat to our democracy to hide the fact that Donald Trump is the greatest threat to our democracy…He wants us to be at war with each other as a distraction from the fact he is stealing from the American people.”
Senator Chris Van Hollen, said:
“We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump’s ICE operations…We can see exactly what happened with our own eyes, and yet you have Noem and the VP and the President trying to gaslight the country—trying to tell people that their own eyes are lying to them.”
Representative Maxwell Frost, said:
“We don’t want ICE just out of Minneapolis, but we want ICE out of all of our communities. We must ensure that we use every tool in our toolbox, which includes voting no on the DHS appropriations bill. No more funding for terrorizing our communities, no more funding for killing our people.”
Reverend Paul Brandeis Rausenbush, president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance, said:
“All across America, people of faith and moral conscience are in a state of heartbreak and outrage as we see our families torn apart, communities invaded, and our neighbors abducted. ICE’s ruthless and unhinged campaign is an affront to the Divine commandments from all our religious traditions: to love our neighbors and welcome the stranger. We cry out to the leadership and foot soldiers of ICE and CBP: repent of the violence in your hearts and hands and turn back toward decency and democracy.”
Nadia Salazar Sandi, cofounder and organizer with Movimiento Migrante DC and Senior Campaigns Manager at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, said:
“Safety is children going to school without fear of returning to an empty home. Safety is a mom showing up for her migrant neighbors knowing she will return home to her babies without threat of violence or death. Safety is investing in our communities, not our surveillance or disappearance. It’s protecting families, not feds.”
Ezra Levin, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, said:
“2025 was the year that saw the most people killed by ICE since its founding. We’re here to remember Renee, and everybody and every community that has been terrorized and victimized by this terrible agency. These assaults on us, our communities, don’t come from a place of strength. They come from a sense that they are embattled. They are terrified of our organizing, and that we’ll understand something central to this moment: that there are more of us than there are of them. Now it’s Congress’s job to hear our outrage, and act. They must use the leverage they have to get ICE out for Good.”
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