Why abolish ICE
Since 2003, ICE has built a system around detention, fear, and family separation. Oversight has not fixed it. Training has not fixed it. New leadership has not fixed it. The agency's record is why we're calling for abolition, and a humane system in its place.
ICE detains, transfers, and deports people, often without legal counsel, often in facilities documented for abuse. Children separated from parents. Medical care withheld. People punished for asking for help. These are not isolated incidents. They are how the agency operates.
People held by ICE describe being denied water, food, medication, and sleep. Reports from Amnesty International document torture in facilities like Alligator Alcatraz and Krome.
The threat of arrest and transfer shapes daily life for millions of people, whether they interact with ICE or not.
65% of Americans say ICE has gone too far. Half support abolishing the agency outright.
Abolition becomes a mandate only when voters see, in public, where every candidate stands.
65%
of Americans said ICE has gone too far
Marist / PBS / NPR · Jan. 27–30, 2026 · 1,462 adults · ±2.9 points
50%
of U.S. adult citizens supported abolishing ICE
Economist / YouGov · Feb. 27–Mar. 2, 2026 · U.S. adult citizens
People in ICE detention have described being denied medication, shackled without water, held without food overnight, punished for asking for sanitary pads, and threatened when screaming in pain. These are accounts from Amnesty International, the American Immigration Council, and ProPublica. Not abstractions.
I had pneumonia… I was shackled and wasn’t given water.
We ask every candidate to vote to dismantle ICE, oppose any expansion of its budget or authority, and back a replacement system built on immigrant rights, pathways to citizenship, and due process.
Take action
Sign, share, call, donate. Every action builds pressure for the pledge, AAACT, and an immigration system rooted in dignity.
