It IS unknown if their efforts will be successful….
But ICE and Federal Homeland Dept. HAS gotten the attention of Lawmakers in Congress….
House Democrats plan to vote against a negotiated funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s aggressive actions against U.S. citizens in Minneapolis and other cities.
Thousands of ICE agents have been sent to Minnesota since December as part of a crackdown that DHS has described as the largest immigration enforcement effort in the agency’s history. An ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renée Good this month, prompting mass demonstrations in the Twin Cities. A week later, another ICE officer shot an undocumented Venezuelan man, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, in the leg during an arrest. ICE also began an operation in Maine on Wednesday.
ICE agents have increased their presence across the country over the past year, which President Donald Trump and Homeland SecuritySecretary Kristi L. Noem have said is necessary to deport undocumented immigrants with criminal records. But agents have been taped on camera aggressively detaining individuals, including many U.S. citizens or undocumented immigrants without violent criminal records.
House Democrats were initially poised to support the DHS funding bill because congressional appropriators worked in a bipartisan manner to cobble together the dozen individual pieces of spending legislation necessary to pass before the Jan. 30 deadline to fund the government and prevent another shutdown. But Good’s death incensed many Democrats and became a red line for the caucus, forcing Republican leaders to delay the measure’s consideration and put the bill on the floor for a stand-alone vote….
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Republicans are aware they cannot rely on Democratic support to pass the legislation, and leaders have implored that all GOP lawmakers be present for Thursday’s vote to ensure its passage. If every member of the House is present and voting, Republicans can only afford to lose two votes to send the last of 12 appropriation bills to the Senate if all Democrats oppose it.
The House is expected to hold separate votes on the DHS funding bill and a three-bill package of the other remaining appropriations bills on Thursday. Government funding is set to expire Jan. 30, and without an appropriations bill or a funding extension known as a continuing resolution, any agency that hasn’t had a spending bill enacted into law would shut down.
Besides the outrage from Good’s death, Democrats are also feeling pressure from their electoral base to fight back against the Trump administration more broadly on immigration. Some lawmakers have begun to resurrect a demand leaders in the party have tried to tamp down for years: “Abolish ICE.”….
Note….
Nobody is gonna out and OUT get Rid of ICE….
But?
Now or down the road?
The agressive action WILL be cut back due to the up coming Midterm Elections…
Bet on it…..
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