Dear Senators Britt and Tuberville,
Concerned Alabamians demand your full attention. The health of our democracy—here in Alabama and across this country—is deteriorating, and your continued support for abusive federal immigration enforcement practices makes you complicit in that decline.
When government agencies operate outside the bounds of the Constitution—and when elected officials refuse to intervene—those agencies forfeit any claim to continued public funding. In January alone, there were credible reports of two deaths involving encounters with federal agents from Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection. In addition, documented incidents across the country show immigrants and U.S. citizens alike being forcibly removed from homes, vehicles, schools and workplaces without meaningful due process.
This is unacceptable.
To halt these abuses, we call on you, Senators Britt and Tuberville, to oppose further funding for Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection—agencies within the Department of Homeland Security that have repeatedly demonstrated disregard for civil liberties and human dignity.
Alabamians have contacted your offices in large numbers to express outrage at these practices. Your responses have been uniform: unwavering loyalty to the president’s immigration agenda. To many of us, that loyalty reads as indifference to constitutional violations and human suffering. Where is your loyalty to the Constitution? Where is your accountability to the people you represent?
Last year, Congress passed the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, HR1, with all but three Republican senators voting yes. Not one dissenting vote came from Alabama. That legislation allocated more than $170 billion—approximately $42.5 billion per year—for expanded immigration enforcement and detention. By comparison, the entire 2025 budget for the Federal Bureau of Prisons was $8.6 billion.
Budgets are moral documents. They reveal priorities.
Instead of directing tens of billions annually toward aggressive enforcement and detention, Congress could have invested those funds in childhood nutrition, children’s health insurance, affordable childcare and direct support for working families. Those choices were not made. Life in this country is already very hard for many people. Should it become harder in the months ahead, we will remember who chose enforcement over families—and we will remember at the voting booth.
If federal enforcement agencies were operating responsibly, we would not see repeated reports of pregnant women forcibly detained, elderly individuals removed from their homes under dangerous conditions, or children separated from caregivers and deported. These patterns point to systemic failures in training, oversight and mission. Increasingly, Americans have come to a grim conclusion: the cruelty of ICE is not a failure of the system—it is the system working as designed.
In the coming weeks, Congress will again consider funding for Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection. Alabama’s reputation as a Republican stronghold may give you confidence that your seats are secure. Perhaps they are. But after the midterm elections, your party will no longer control Congress. The record you create now will follow you then.
You have a choice.
You can continue to align yourselves with executive power and party discipline. Or you can honor your oath and act to defend constitutional rights, due process and basic human dignity.
There is no need for a written response to this letter. Your response should be decisive and public: vote NO on future funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and related enforcement agencies.
Sincerely,
Members of the Alabama Resisters
The Montgomery Chapter of Indivisible
Linda Fisher, Corresponding Secretary
