State, Local Prosecutors Must Commit to Prosecuting ICE Crimes

Phone scripts, talking points, email tools to demand AGs and DAs step up

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The last week has featured brutal reminder after brutal reminder of how totally Trump has hijacked and politicized the Justice Department, and how that is giving ICE the green light to terrorize us.

Yesterday alone at least six career prosecutors in the Minneapolis U.S. Attorney’s office resigned in objection to the department’s obstruction of the state AG’s inquiry into Renee Nicole Good’s murder and pressure from senior DoJ officials to investigate her widow. Furthermore, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche flat-out declared there was no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation and five senior prosecutors announced they would leave the DoJ’s Civil Rights Division.

This compromised agency is going to let the deportation machine assault and abuse us with impunity, and the response to that must go far beyond Hennepin County. CNN reported Monday that Homeland Security lied in its initial statements about an ICE shooting in Maryland in December, and just weeks ago the federal government was trying to indict Miramar Martinez after a CBP agent shot her.

We cannot simply sit around and wait for a new administration to bring the ICE thugs stalking our streets to justice when they commit crimes. As legal scholars and commentators have highlighted, there is a long history of state and local governments seeking indictments of federal officials for using deadly force on the job, including after Ruby Ridge. It’s time for that history to grow.

Let’s reach out to our state attorneys general and local prosecutors to demand they commit to prosecuting any crimes by ICE and CBP agents to the fullest extent of the law where the U.S. Department of Justice won’t step up. We can find scripts and email language below.

Last updated 1/14/26.

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PHONE SCRIPTS

Please adjust, add, and reword as you would see fit - you will be most effective speaking in your own words!

Hi, my name is _________, and I’m a constituent from (city, zip). (If voicemail, leave street address).

I am calling to demand your office prosecute any crimes by ICE and CBP agents to the fullest extent of the law. Masked thugs are abusing and attacking people on our streets, and federal law enforcement is covering up and cheering for them. They won’t protect us, so we are counting on you to keep us safe.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

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EMAIL LANGUAGE

Armed gangs of masked thugs are terrorizing our streets in broad daylight. Just because they’re doing so under color of law doesn’t mean they should be able to get away with it.

Federal law enforcement has made it painfully clear they will cover up and cheerlead for wrongdoing by immigration agents. They have given them the green light to attack and abuse us. We are counting on you to keep us safe.

There is a long history of state and local governments prosecuting federal officials for violating state laws where their actions were not necessary and proper for fulfilling official duties. They are not above the law, and we should be protected by it.

Please act creatively and aggressively to prosecute all crimes by ICE and CBP agents to the fullest extent of the law.

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