1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

Three people are now dead in ICE custody. Three. In just over a month. Genry Ruiz-Guillen, 29, from Honduras, died January 23. Serawit Gezahegn Dejene, 45, from Ethiopia, died January 29. Maksym Chernyak, 44, from Ukraine, died February 20. Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller need to be stopped. This isn’t mismanagement. This isn’t politics. This is state-sanctioned human suffering. ICE has 46,269 people in custody—far above its legal bed count of 41,500. Congress just rewarded them with another $430 million. Detention centers are overflowing. Guards are whispering, “It shouldn’t be like this.” But they keep turning the key. They keep locking the doors. I am pressuring you to defund ICE, to end private detention contracts, to shut down Krome and every facility like it. We the people demand independent investigations, criminal accountability, and media that covers these stories like lives are on the line—because they are.