Failing to pass another budget CR to fund DHS will not affect ICE. The OBBBA funded DHS for several years outside the normal appropriations process. There's a $75 billions supplemental allocation for ICE. USCIS visa fees would continue to fund operations without additional appropriations. It's almost like Republicans thought of this before it happened (which is sad and morally corrupt).
Why is it morally corrupt to pursue funding a legitimate policy? Preemptive measures happen in every administration. Pardons. Extending temporary protective status. Paroling hundreds of thousands of illegals. Transferring tons of federal money into accounts for NGOs. Dozens of others that might be legal but with questionable motives. Politics suck.
If they were forward thinking enough to realize ICE and USCIS would end up killing civilians, U.S. citizens, and also to cut off the main method the opposition would use to curtail that, it’s morally corrupt. They were playing on the bet of civil disobedience and political violence.
I think you needed another "if" in front of your last sentence. That's pretty far-fetched thinking. Even I would not accuse the democrats of deliberately releasing millions of unvetted illegals with the intent of criminally killing hundreds of citizens or knowing illegal immigrant truckers and drunk drivers would do some of the damage they have done.
Your statement was "paroling hundreds of thousands of illegals", which is the issue - you refuse to acknowledge that an asylum claim is itself a legal immigration pathway.
Relevant: Punchbowl News is reporting that the "de-escalation" is being done so Senate Dems don't push for actual restrictions on ICE as part of the funding package.
Failing to pass another budget CR to fund DHS will not affect ICE. The OBBBA funded DHS for several years outside the normal appropriations process. There's a $75 billions supplemental allocation for ICE. USCIS visa fees would continue to fund operations without additional appropriations. It's almost like Republicans thought of this before it happened (which is sad and morally corrupt).
I’m assuming that Democrat versions of the bill would claw back those funds if they can get Republicans to agree.
Why is it morally corrupt to pursue funding a legitimate policy? Preemptive measures happen in every administration. Pardons. Extending temporary protective status. Paroling hundreds of thousands of illegals. Transferring tons of federal money into accounts for NGOs. Dozens of others that might be legal but with questionable motives. Politics suck.
If they were forward thinking enough to realize ICE and USCIS would end up killing civilians, U.S. citizens, and also to cut off the main method the opposition would use to curtail that, it’s morally corrupt. They were playing on the bet of civil disobedience and political violence.
I think you needed another "if" in front of your last sentence. That's pretty far-fetched thinking. Even I would not accuse the democrats of deliberately releasing millions of unvetted illegals with the intent of criminally killing hundreds of citizens or knowing illegal immigrant truckers and drunk drivers would do some of the damage they have done.
Yet again: asylum claims provide a (temporary) legal status. Stop stating things as being illegal that aren't.
Please refer to the last part of my first comment. "Dozens of others that might be legal but with questionable motives. Politics suck."
Your statement was "paroling hundreds of thousands of illegals", which is the issue - you refuse to acknowledge that an asylum claim is itself a legal immigration pathway.
Relevant: Punchbowl News is reporting that the "de-escalation" is being done so Senate Dems don't push for actual restrictions on ICE as part of the funding package.
Another shutdown is an opportunity to furlough more bureaucrats and I am all for it.
As is normally the case, furloughed workers got rehired with back pay under Trump too.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2025/11/tentative-senate-deal-reaffirms-back-pay-reverses-rifs-for-federal-employees/
Not all of them.