With TSA losing people by the minute ….
Cause they ain’t getting paid….
ICE people getting paid taking abuse walking around on their phones…
Trump saying he’s ok with a deal….
RightWingNut’s intent on trying to get Trump’s SAVE Bill thru while Donald mails in his Florida vote?
Things that people in media say are ‘getting there’?
Are NOT….
Democrats in the Senate are NOT bending….
Their supporters do NOT want them to….
ICE limitations ARE a MUST for Democrats…
NOT approving Trump’s SAVE Bill also…
(Neither party wants to change the Senate 60 vote rule Donald)
And there is NO Trump trust by Democrats, especially with Stephen Miller lurking in the shadows ….
This has been over Four Weeks and COULD LAST for a considerable time LONGER…
Folks?
They COULD run out of TSA people and airports could get shut down….
Key negotiators circulated a potential deal Tuesday to end a five-week standoffover Department of Homeland Security funding and, among other things, pay beleaguered transportation screeners as mounting security lines snarl airports.
Nobody in Washington, however, seems too excited about it.
The framework brokered by a handful of Senate Republicans and the White House Monday got a cool reception from Senate Democrats, who said it does nothing to rein in immigration enforcement abuses at the center of the DHS funding impasse.
Conservative Republicans pushed back on the idea that some Immigration and Customs Enforcement funds would be left out of the agreement and pursued separately under the party-line reconciliation process, calling it a capitulation to Democrats.
Even President Donald Trump, who has gone back and forth on the DHS shutdown talks but hosted the White House meeting Monday evening where the latest proposal was hatched, gave the plan only a tepid endorsement in his first public comments on it Tuesday.
“We’re going to take a good hard look at it,” he said in the Oval Office, later adding, “They are getting fairly close. But I think any deal they make, I’m pretty much not happy with it.”
The griping heard up and down Pennsylvania Avenue cast fresh doubt on whether Congress would be able to act this week to end the shutdown that started Feb. 14 — even as hourslong waits at some U.S. airports weighed heavily on lawmakers….
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“A lot of the reforms are contingent on funding for ICE,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters Tuesday afternoon. “So if you’re not going to have funding, I don’t know how all of a sudden now they can demand reforms.”
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“The problem is that they have everybody at DHS right now doing immigration enforcement,” said Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, who is the top Democrat on the Homeland Security funding panel but not central to the negotiations.
By funding other DHS agencies, Murphy added, “you’re providing money for immigration enforcement.”
The qualms are not just coming from Democrats….
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats will offer a counterproposal to the GOP offer.
“I can assure you it will contain significant reform in it,” Schumer told reporters Tuesday. Thune, Tuesday night, expressed doubts Democrats could offer anything Republicans would agree to: “I just don’t know what that is at this point,” he said.
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Instead, Democrats on both sides of the Capitol continue to pressure Republicans to pass Democratic proposals to fund all of DHS except ICE, Customs and Border Protection and the secretary’s office, as well as policies cracking down on the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics.
“We have a solution to this issue. We can deal with ICE and CBP. That conversation should be ongoing,” Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the House’s top Democratic appropriator, said in an interview Tuesday night. “In the meantime, let us fund these other agencies.”
DeLauro, who offered a bill more than a month ago to that end, noted that the offer Senate Republicans sketched out Tuesday was hatched in consultation with Trump but not Democrats.
“That’s a discussion between Republicans,” she said. “There’s no Democratic inclusion in any of that discussion. And anything that doesn’t include reforms of ICE and CBP is not viable.”….
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Things like this below are what Democrats are fighting AGAINST
Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
Reporting Highlights
- More Moms Deported: An exclusive data analysis found Trump has deported moms of U.S. citizens at four times the rate of his predecessor.
- Left Stranded: Because American-born kids can’t legally join their parents in immigration detention, some end up with friends or strangers when their parents are detained or deported.
- New Directive: Trump administration officials revised a document advising how ICE officers should interact with parents, removing the word “humane.”….
This IS why the Democrats HAVE to make sure they get limitations on Trump/Miller’s immigration actions….
Appeals court upholds ICE mass detention policy
A federal appeals court upheld the Trump administration’s policy allowing mass detention of migrants awaiting deportation without bond.
In a 2-1 ruling Wednesday, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals determined that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was justified in detaining people without the possibility of bond.