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Fund ICE for Three Years. Also Build the Ballroom.
Senate Republicans returned from recess to pass a $72 billion immigration enforcement package. Trump wants $1 billion in the same bill for White House ballroom security. Vulnerable Republicans have to vote on both.
The DOJ Just Sued New Mexico for Passing a Law Its Legislature Voted On.
The Justice Department is asking a federal court to block New Mexico's Immigrant Safety Act before it takes effect, arguing the state cannot prohibit local governments from cooperating with ICE. The state's governor signed the bill in February. The federal government wants a judge to override her.
Trump's Policy of Jailing Immigrants Without Bond Hearings Is Heading to the Supreme Court
Federal appeals circuits are splitting over whether a 30-year-old immigration law authorizes mass detention without hearings. The Supreme Court will likely have to decide whether millions of people can be held indefinitely on the government's schedule alone.
Congress Is Funding a Deportation Machine That Can't Be Turned Off
DHS got its funding back. ICE and CBP didn't. Now Republicans are routing $140 billion in immigration enforcement through mandatory accounts designed to survive future Congresses and future presidents.
Connecticut Signed a Law Against ICE. The House Judiciary Committee Subpoenaed Arlington. States Are Drawing Lines.
The federal-state immigration standoff is past the rhetoric stage. Connecticut now has a law. Arlington has a subpoena. The legal question underneath all of it has not been answered.
House GOP Ends the DHS Shutdown by Cutting ICE Funding. Both Sides Claim Victory.
After 75 days, House Republicans reopened TSA and the Coast Guard -- but passed zero dollars for immigration enforcement to get it done.
Day 72: The DHS Shutdown Has Already Won by Continuing
The Senate passed $70 billion for ICE and Border Patrol on a 50-48 vote. The House refuses to take it up until after a 'skinny' bill. Markets give 88% odds the shutdown lasts past April. Trump endorsed renaming ICE to NICE.
The Longest Shutdown in History Is Being Ended by the Process That Caused It
Senate Republicans are using budget reconciliation to fund ICE without Democratic votes. Democrats used the shutdown to demand accountability for federal killings. Neither side is wrong, and neither can win.
Harvard's Grad Workers Are Striking for Wages. They're Also Striking Against ICE.
4,000 graduate workers walked off the job at one of the world's wealthiest universities. The demands mix pay parity with immigration protections in a way Harvard cannot easily split. That's the point.
The Government That Made Apple Delete Its Own Critics
A federal judge found the Trump administration coerced Facebook and Apple into removing ICE-tracking tools, ruling it a First Amendment violation.
Day 58: Republicans Are Using the Nuclear Option to Fund Immigration Enforcement
The DHS shutdown hit two months. The Senate passed a partial reopening that excludes ICE and CBP. Now Republicans are using budget reconciliation to fund immigration agencies for three years, bypassing the filibuster.
Funding Half a Border Agency
Congress reopened DHS after 40 days but left ICE and Border Patrol unfunded. Now Republicans want reconciliation to finish the job without Democrats. The shutdown is over in name only.
The DHS Shutdown Ended. The Fight It Was About Did Not.
After 40 days, the Senate reopened most of the Department of Homeland Security but deliberately left ICE and Border Patrol funding unresolved. The compromise is not a settlement. It is a timeout.
Congress Ended the DHS Shutdown by Defunding the Part Trump Actually Wanted
The Senate reopened DHS after 52 days by funding TSA, FEMA, and Coast Guard while leaving ICE Enforcement and Border Patrol without appropriations. The administration called it a win. It wasn't.