Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.

Democrats say they will not vote for a DHS spending bill when funding runs out unless there are “dramatic changes” at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal law enforcement agencies in the wake of the fatal shootings of two protesters in Minneapolis last month.

The Democratic leaders, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, released an expanded list of 10 detailed proposals on Wednesday night for restraining Donald Trump’s aggressive campaign of immigration enforcement. Among the demands are a requirement for judicial warrants, better identification of DHS officers, new use of force standards and a stop to racial profiling.

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    So let it. They passed the last funding bill because it also included other departments, this is DHS by itself. Let’s see how many ICE show up for work when they stop getting paid.

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      I assume many of them do it just so they can legally terrorize people, so they may last longer than you’d think.

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        Don’t forget the abductions and rape. I’m sure majority of those fuckwards are doing it just for that. Organized chaos, purposeful unaccountability for everything, no records of who is where. Bastards the lot of them.