House Democrats are pushing a contentious Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spending bill that would allow tens of billions of dollars to flow to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),…
In endorsing a bill that would carry forward a huge spike in funding to ICE, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.), the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, acknowledged it excludes most of the ICE reforms Democrats have demanded since the Jan. 7 shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. But a shutdown or a short-term spending patch, she argued, would be worse.
“A continuing resolution will jettison the guardrails we have secured while ceding authority to President Trump, Stephen Miller, and [DHS] Secretary [Kristi] Noem,” she said Tuesday morning.
New regulatory guardrails aren’t going to even slow down ICE a little bit, we already have a mountain of examples of them ignoring their current regulations and lying about their conduct constantly. The only thing that will restrain them is denying them the resources they need to carry out their campaign of oppression.
What’s really frustrating tho is I’m sure Rep DeLauro knows all of that already and she’s just trying to push this bullshit through anyway.
New regulatory guardrails aren’t going to even slow down ICE a little bit, we already have a mountain of examples of them ignoring their current regulations and lying about their conduct constantly. The only thing that will restrain them is denying them the resources they need to carry out their campaign of oppression.
What’s really frustrating tho is I’m sure Rep DeLauro knows all of that already and she’s just trying to push this bullshit through anyway.