This Fight Is Personal. Latino Families Are Under Threat.

Yesterday, during the Latino Unity Summit and our advocacy meetings on Capitol Hill, LULAC stood alongside UnidosUS, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Mi Familia en Acción, and the NMAC Coalition for Justice and Equality Across Movements to push back against Reconciliation 2.0, the highly-partisan budget package that would cut Medicaid and food assistance while pouring roughly $70 billion into immigration enforcement operations through 2029.

We flew in leaders and advocates from across the country because this bill would hit Latino and working families hard. LULAC leaders came from Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Texas, and other states to make sure Congress heard directly what these cuts would mean back home.

In one day alone, LULAC teams met with 43 congressional offices across the House and Senate, including both Republicans and Democrats.

The message was simple:

No cuts to Medicaid.
No cuts to food assistance.
No more blank checks for ICE and CBP without accountability.

If Congress is going to fund these operations, there must be real limits, real transparency, clear agent identification, body cameras, protections for schools and hospitals, and an end to racial profiling.

Senate Republicans have now delayed voting on Reconciliation 2.0, and the House also appears to be slowing down.

That says a lot about the impact of these meetings and the thousands of steps LULAC leaders and partners put in across Capitol Hill yesterday. The pressure mattered.

But the fight is not over.

Members of Congress and senators still need to hear from you, the constituents. Families should not lose healthcare, food assistance, and economic stability just to fund a massive expansion of immigration enforcement.

Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your senator or representative’s office. Tell them what these policies are doing to your community. You cannot keep ripping support beams out of a house and expect the structure to stay standing.

Our communities are watching. And we are keeping a record.

This is one of those moments where public pressure can still change the outcome.