CPR condemns anti-immigrant actions that terrorize our communities, target Black and brown people, impact people with disabilities, violate the Constitution, and harm innocent legal observers. Within these atrocities, the daily threats to people with disabilities and their caregivers are dramatic.
Many people with disabilities have lost the critical care they rely on when their family members are detained; the recent death of a Texas man who was hospitalized after his father was taken by immigration authorities is a wake-up call. Nationwide, the immigration crackdown has exacerbated an already-dire workforce shortage for people with disabilities and has left many, especially children, without needed services.
This administration’s actions violate the rights of disabled immigrants by detaining them in overcrowded and inaccessible detention centers that provide inadequate, inappropriate care. In August 2025, Congressional representatives sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) detailing some of these harms and calling for accountability. Aggressive and dehumanizing tactics also harm people with disabilities, who have been violently pulled from their cars and assaulted, despite identifying themselves as disabled.
CPR is monitoring these events and encourages everyone to speak up, including by calling your congressional representatives this week to tell them that Congress should not fund the DHS budget without ensuring protections for the constitutional and human rights of everyone who encounters immigration enforcement and detention. We have to be better than this.