The U.S. faces an unprecedented national debt, now exceeding $107 trillion, yet billions are spent punishing parents rather than supporting children. The current child support enforcement system drains resources, incarcerates parents, and worsens poverty—all while failing to prioritize children’s actual needs. Congress must act to reform this system. Key Findings: • National Debt & Fiscal Waste: From 1998–2025, federal child support enforcement contributed to mismanaged funds, with $32.5 billion spent on administrative costs—often exceeding the net support actually delivered to children. This waste worsens an already unsustainable national debt. • Child Support Arrears: Over the same period, cumulative unpaid child support totaled ~$450 billion. Tens of thousands of parents are jailed annually for nonpayment, preventing them from earning income to support their children. • Inequity & Constitutional Concerns: Felony prosecutions, punitive interest, and incarceration without consideration of ability to pay violate due process and equal protection. Current enforcement often penalizes poverty rather than ensuring child welfare. This Act Will: 1. Repeal federal felony child support provisions (18 U.S.C. § 228). 2. Require ability-to-pay hearings before penalties, license suspensions, or incarceration. 3. Automatically adjust arrears for income loss, verified unemployment, disability, or incarceration. 4. Ensure gender-neutral, equal enforcement and reciprocal enforcement of financial and custodial orders. 5. Prioritize support over punishment through job assistance, mediation, and debt reconciliation. 6. Prohibit punitive interest or penalties unrelated to actual child expenses. 7. Prevent children from being treated as government revenue or collateral for debt. 8. Increase transparency and accountability for administrative costs, reimbursements, and enforcement outcomes. Why This Matters: Current policies trap families in cycles of debt and incarceration, divert billions from direct child support, and contribute to a spiraling national debt. Reform will ensure fiscal responsibility, protect children’s needs, uphold constitutional rights, and break the cycle of poverty that unfair enforcement perpetuates. Call to Action: Sign to demand child support reform that is fair, transparent, fiscally responsible, and focused on children, not punishment.

Students around Georgia have been missing or dropping out of school due to fear of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Our parents are scared and our families are in crisis. Immigrants make 20% of all people in Dekalb County. They are active members of the community contributing every day and deserve to be protected from the attacks. We deserve to have a safe learning environment in school and feel supported by our elected leaders.  Dekalb County prides themselves on diversity and inclusion, this is the time to show immigrants are included in that diversity. We need to show up for each other and for our leaders to be courageous in the stand against ICE. 

Every year, thousands of immigrants have their rights violated by a system that operates with very little oversight and accountability. People are denied access to medical care. They are subject to subpar living conditions. They experience preventable illnesses and injuries. And every year, people die at the hands of our government in detention.  Thousands of people have come forward with complaints of sexual assault and physical abuse under DHS’s watch. Only a fraction of those complaints are ever investigated.  Meanwhile, ICE agents have flooded our streets—violating our civil liberties, abusing and harming peaceful observers and protesters, kidnapping people in broad daylight, and even murdering people as the world watches in horror.  Immigration enforcement was never about safety. It was always about power. But our government doesn’t get a free pass to abuse, detain, and violate the rights of the people who live, work, and care for their families here. We demand a just and fair immigration system that upholds the dignity of every human being that lives here.  ICE and DHS have terrorized the people of this country. And it’s time we close all detention camps and stop the deportation-industrial complex once and for all by getting ICE off our streets. Sign the petition!

ICE’s budget has skyrocketed over the past decade to more than $85 billion—nearly 14 times what it once was just 10 years ago. And under Trump, the directives given to agents have gotten more extreme, the training drastically reduced, and the protocol more cruel.  Trump’s ICE has taken to right-wing social media and gun shows to recruit thousands of new agents—loosening employment criteria, neglecting background checks, using neo-Nazi slogans in advertisements, and offering a bribe of $50,000 in sign-up bonuses.  Meanwhile, Border Patrol leaders—who have historically operated separately from interior immigration enforcement—have stepped up in positions of power in ICE. The militarization of the agency combined with its quick and unvetted growth has created a tinderbox of violence and lawlessness that is unprecedented.  Trump’s first term was ICE’s deadliest year in the past two decades. And in the first month of 2026, six people died in ICE custody. Hundreds of thousands of people have been deported, their families ripped apart, their communities devastated. U.S. citizens, including children, have been swept up in the chaos—detained and even deported. It is disturbing, heartbreaking, and immoral.  >>Enough is enough. Trump’s ICE is out of control. Congress must STOP their reign of terror now—add your name.<<

The government created Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2003, the same time the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was established, as a post-9/11 fearmongering tactic that reframed our immigrant neighbors as a domestic threat.  Every year, the government spends billions of dollars to uphold the largest detention system in the world—a system designed to detain and deport immigrants who came to the U.S. seeking a brighter future for themselves and their families. And instead, are met with intimidation, neglect, and even violence.  Every year, thousands of people have their rights violated by a system that operates with very little oversight and accountability. People are denied access to medical care. They are subject to subpar living conditions. They experience preventable illnesses and injuries. And every year, people die at the hands of our government in immigration detention.  Every year, people come forward with complaints of sexual assault and physical abuse under DHS’s watch. Only a fraction of those complaints are ever investigated. Why? Because there is no independent oversight—ICE and DHS are responsible for investigating complaints and auditing immigrant prisons and jails. And they don’t want to.  We can’t reform a system that—at its core—is cruel and inhumane. We can’t reform a system whose primary reason for existence is to vilify, detain, and deport our neighbors. A system that is too easily manipulated and exploited by bad actors, time and time again.  We need to abolish ICE. We need to redirect funds to a just and fair immigration system that provides a pathway to citizenship for the millions of people who live, work, and care for their families here. And we need to ensure that every single person in this country is treated with the same dignity and respect—their civil rights upheld.  >>Add your name to the petition NOW to demand we abolish ICE and stop its campaign of terror!<<

ICE is being directed to attack communities in our homes, schools, and streets. The horrible and unjustifiable murders of Minnesotans Alex Pretti and Renee Good at the hands of ICE agents show how shameless they are about assaulting our rights.  They’re terrorizing our communities right before our eyes. Trump’s administration will keep doubling down on violence against our communities, weaponizing ICE against us—and working to cover it up. We refuse to stay silent. From schools to sidewalks, playgrounds to public spaces, the presence of ICE only makes our communities less safe. ICE has no place in our communities—not in Minnesota, not anywhere. Demand ICE retreat from our communities now.

Right now, millions of undocumented people in the U.S. are facing ICE’s terrifying attacks while they try to navigate an inhumane, complex web of steps to achieving citizenship. If people do everything right, they often still face deportation—sometimes even getting detained while showing up to legally mandated immigration hearings.  Congress must act to fight back against the criminalization of immigration and create a fair and accessible pathway to legal status and citizenship for all undocumented people living in the U.S., including Dreamers and Temporary Protected Status recipients.  Add your name to demand that Congress fight back against Trump’s cruel policies and commit to a more compassionate, more just citizenship process now.

Families are being ripped apart, from Los Angeles to Minneapolis to D.C. and countless communities in between. Children are learning about their parents' disappearance via social media, and ICE has ramped up its retaliatory detentions—detaining immigrants who have spoken out about the cruel policies of the Trump administration.  Since Trump’s second term began, the number of people abducted by ICE skyrocketed by 84%, and it’s all funded by a staggering $45 billion investment in ICE’s inhumane deportation campaign.  Let's be clear: These detentions aren’t arrests—they’re kidnappings. Immigrants are being detained indiscriminately and given little to no access to due process or mechanisms to be released.  Sign the petition to demand ICE release thousands of people who have been abducted from their communities >>

Minnesota families are living in fear. With federal agents menacing our neighborhoods and the horrifying loss of two community members, we need action. The sports team owners who profit on Minnesota’s deep passion for athletics must speak up. Renee Good and Alex Pretti sacrificed their lives to protect our community. The owners of these teams have an obligation to keep their fans safe while representing the values of our community. Minnesotans competing in the Olympics are united with us in this struggle. Team USA curler Rich Ruohonen emphasized, “We have a constitution. What’s happening in Minnesota is unjust.” Vikings legend John Randle passionately voiced his support, stating, “I love Minnesota and stand with my entire community. #iceout.” It’s time for our Minnesota team owners to demonstrate leadership and firmly declare that ICE and federal agents will not be permitted to intimidate fans at games. Additionally, these owners should use their influence with President Trump to convey a clear message: Minnesotans want ICE permanently removed from our state!

Update 2/4/26: Don Lemon and Georgia Fort have been released from custody but their charges remain.  In this country, under the First Amendment, reporters are free to view, document, and share information with the public. And that’s exactly what these journalists were doing in Minnesota.  From day one of Trump’s second term, this administration has been attacking the free press. From defunding public media to banning press outlets from White House press briefings to removing legacy media outlets from the Pentagon and attacking individual journalists, the administration has worked not only to discredit valid reporting as “fake news” but taken major steps to control and shut down the free press. The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a major escalation in the Trump administration’s attacks on the First Amendment, jeopardizing freedom of the press and ultimately threatening all of our rights. Demand that the Trump administration immediately drop federal charges against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort!

DHS under Secretary Noem can be quickly summed up: Impunity. Injustice. Slanderous propaganda. Violence. As out-of-control ICE and CBP agents kill with impunity in our communities, Kristi Noem has proven herself to be utterly unfit to lead the Department of Homeland Security and rein in this violence. Indeed, she’s often spurred it on. We will never get the accountability we deserve so long as Noem is leading DHS, which is why Congress must take matters into its own hands and push her out.

Why This Petition Matters Illinois Medicaid dental coverage often exists in name only. In many parts of the state, especially rural and southern Illinois, there are no dentists or oral surgeons who accept Medicaid, leaving patients without real access to care. Untreated dental problems become medical emergencies, increasing suffering and healthcare costs. This petition calls on Illinois to ensure Medicaid dental coverage provides real, timely, and geographically accessible care.