Darcy Tromanhauser

Congress has failed to meaningfully update our immigration laws in 40 years – leaving Nebraska families, communities, and the systems and services we all rely on with damaging outcomes and uncertainty for many years.  Now many more longtime neighbors who have been part of Nebraska communities for decades are losing work status as the administration

Yesterday, Nebraska’s delegation and Congress took the unprecedented step of passing a toxic and irresponsible budget reconciliation bill providing an additional $70 billion of deficit spending for ICE violence and mass detention of neighbors. This action bypassed strong public opposition and the normal budget process to supply ICE with more funding – on top of the

Congress is likely to vote soon on a bill that goes around the normal budget process to funnel an additional $70 billion of taxpayer funds into ICE violence and mass detention plans. Public opposition successfully stopped this in the normal budget process (and has begun to slow this fast-track bill). But Congress is expected to return

Congress is currently considering a bill that goes around the normal budget process to give ICE and CBP (and the ballroom) an additional $72 billion. These funds would come on top of an unprecedented $170 billion allocated just last year to dramatically expand ICE and CBP operations, which has funded mass detentions and shocking violence against people, substantially

Last fall, more than 18,300 Nebraskans from 386 towns and cities signed a petition to stop Governor Pillen from opening a large-scale federal detainment camp in our state, saying “This is NOT who we are” – and we filed a lawsuit on behalf of McCook residents to prevent this harmful expansion of ICE mass detention. Though the lawsuit was dismissed in

Congress is yet again starting a process to designate additional billions of our tax dollars for out-of-control ICE agents on top of unprecedented billions already passed last summer through the big budget bill.  Despite strong public opinion against additional funding after witnessing ICE violence kill multiple people, a ballooning federal agent force overwhelming local communities

Today and tomorrow, the House of Representatives will be taking important votes on H.R. 1689, a positive solution that would support Temporary Protected Status (TPS) stability for local communities and safety for Haitian neighbors, business owners, caregivers, and faith leaders who have been in the U.S. for decades and are essential parts of communities across

This week, the President addressed the nation in a State of the Union address out of touch with the realities of working families and continuing to spread harmful rhetoric about immigrant neighbors who are part of the fabric of local communities and help make local communities strong. The reality is, mass detentions and deportations by