Democrats lay out immigration demands as Congress careens toward shutdown
Who's accountable for the results?
Senate Democrats dug in Monday with fresh demands for restrictions against federal immigration officers in exchange for passing a tranche of government funding bills following a second deadly shooting in Minnesota by agents.
Stipulations from Democrats were abundant, as Congress barrels toward a Friday partial shutdown deadline and Republican leaders rebuffed calls for additional legal guardrails for agencies carrying out President Donald Trump’s sweeping deportation agenda.
Democrats are seeking to prohibit federal agents from conducting warrantless raids, racial profiling, and wearing masks, in addition to conditions that the administration drop its immigration operations in Minneapolis and conduct investigations into the deaths of protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of federal agents.
But Democrats have yet to coalesce around a comprehensive list of official demands, even as they unified around the call for the funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to be stripped from the government funding package that includes other government agencies and operations.
“We’re going to synthesize that into one list of, I think, very sane demands that are going to make both the American public safer,” Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) told reporters. “But also, some of these agents will be safer with accountability.”
Gallego, a border-state Democrat and Marine veteran, cited four main criteria in exchange for his support to help Republicans later this week overcome a 60-vote filibuster required to avert a partial shutdown: all agents wear body cameras, no warrantless searches, no racial profiling, and Border Patrol agents deployed to places such as Minneapolis and other cities far from the U.S.-Mexico border be returned to the southern border. Other provisions from a range of congressional Democrats also include no more detainment of U.S. citizens and targeting of blue cities and states that critics say are designed to inflict retribution against Trump’s political foes, such as Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN).
The office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) confirmed the chamber would “proceed as planned” without changes upon return Tuesday evening to advance the House-passed tranche of spending bills and urged Democrats to “find a path forward to join us before this week’s funding deadline hits.”
A Democratic leadership aide offered pushback, saying: “Republicans and the White House have …
Who's accountable for the results?
Senate Democrats dug in Monday with fresh demands for restrictions against federal immigration officers in exchange for passing a tranche of government funding bills following a second deadly shooting in Minnesota by agents.
Stipulations from Democrats were abundant, as Congress barrels toward a Friday partial shutdown deadline and Republican leaders rebuffed calls for additional legal guardrails for agencies carrying out President Donald Trump’s sweeping deportation agenda.
Democrats are seeking to prohibit federal agents from conducting warrantless raids, racial profiling, and wearing masks, in addition to conditions that the administration drop its immigration operations in Minneapolis and conduct investigations into the deaths of protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of federal agents.
But Democrats have yet to coalesce around a comprehensive list of official demands, even as they unified around the call for the funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to be stripped from the government funding package that includes other government agencies and operations.
“We’re going to synthesize that into one list of, I think, very sane demands that are going to make both the American public safer,” Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) told reporters. “But also, some of these agents will be safer with accountability.”
Gallego, a border-state Democrat and Marine veteran, cited four main criteria in exchange for his support to help Republicans later this week overcome a 60-vote filibuster required to avert a partial shutdown: all agents wear body cameras, no warrantless searches, no racial profiling, and Border Patrol agents deployed to places such as Minneapolis and other cities far from the U.S.-Mexico border be returned to the southern border. Other provisions from a range of congressional Democrats also include no more detainment of U.S. citizens and targeting of blue cities and states that critics say are designed to inflict retribution against Trump’s political foes, such as Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN).
The office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) confirmed the chamber would “proceed as planned” without changes upon return Tuesday evening to advance the House-passed tranche of spending bills and urged Democrats to “find a path forward to join us before this week’s funding deadline hits.”
A Democratic leadership aide offered pushback, saying: “Republicans and the White House have …
Democrats lay out immigration demands as Congress careens toward shutdown
Who's accountable for the results?
Senate Democrats dug in Monday with fresh demands for restrictions against federal immigration officers in exchange for passing a tranche of government funding bills following a second deadly shooting in Minnesota by agents.
Stipulations from Democrats were abundant, as Congress barrels toward a Friday partial shutdown deadline and Republican leaders rebuffed calls for additional legal guardrails for agencies carrying out President Donald Trump’s sweeping deportation agenda.
Democrats are seeking to prohibit federal agents from conducting warrantless raids, racial profiling, and wearing masks, in addition to conditions that the administration drop its immigration operations in Minneapolis and conduct investigations into the deaths of protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of federal agents.
But Democrats have yet to coalesce around a comprehensive list of official demands, even as they unified around the call for the funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to be stripped from the government funding package that includes other government agencies and operations.
“We’re going to synthesize that into one list of, I think, very sane demands that are going to make both the American public safer,” Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) told reporters. “But also, some of these agents will be safer with accountability.”
Gallego, a border-state Democrat and Marine veteran, cited four main criteria in exchange for his support to help Republicans later this week overcome a 60-vote filibuster required to avert a partial shutdown: all agents wear body cameras, no warrantless searches, no racial profiling, and Border Patrol agents deployed to places such as Minneapolis and other cities far from the U.S.-Mexico border be returned to the southern border. Other provisions from a range of congressional Democrats also include no more detainment of U.S. citizens and targeting of blue cities and states that critics say are designed to inflict retribution against Trump’s political foes, such as Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN).
The office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) confirmed the chamber would “proceed as planned” without changes upon return Tuesday evening to advance the House-passed tranche of spending bills and urged Democrats to “find a path forward to join us before this week’s funding deadline hits.”
A Democratic leadership aide offered pushback, saying: “Republicans and the White House have …
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