So apparently Senate Republicans are offering a DHS funding deal. From what I understand of it, it's total garbage and should be rejected immediately. CBP would be funded fully and ICE would still get $. With no actual policy changes. And then they would give ICE more $ through reconciliation.

It's got to be infuriating for TSA agents for the White House to directly refuse to fund their agency and instead say they're fixing the situation by sending ICE out to stand around and be intimidating

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

The administration's admission that sending ICE agents to airports is threatening is admitting they know how deeply unpopular immigration enforcement personnel actually are. If ICE agents were anything other than paramilitary troopers to be distrusted, this would be a nonissue.

Ds starting to finalize opposition to Mullin at DHS. Fetterman could be only Dem Kaine says Mullin's votes against certifying 2020 election "makes him the wrong person to serve as the DHS Secretary.” Coons says he's gotten to know him and traveled with him but "DHS needs a foundational shift"

"Perez-Jimenez is the thirteenth person to die in ICE custody this year, and the thirty-sixth person to die in detention since Donald Trump launched his sweeping immigration crackdown. He is also the youngest to die in custody since Trump resumed office." newrepublic.com/post/208003/...

"With the transition of power at the DHS approaching, if the nominee to succeed Kristi Noem—OK GOP Senator Markwayne Mullin—is confirmed, no major changes to the Trump administration’s detention and deportation agenda are expected," writes Hastings. "Trump’s immigration strategy remains extremist."

Senate Republicans just blocked funding for TSA, Coastguard, and FEMA because they refuse to reign in this out of control agency.

Democrats are not biting on any promises by Mullen or the White House to change their immigration practices because they correctly don't trust them. This administration has shown it is willing to repeatedly lie about immigrants as part of their "at all costs" approach to mass deportations.

Undocumented immigrants pay nearly $100 billion in taxes a year. I wonder how much the President pays?

Rand Paul: I don't think that kind of person sends the right message to ICE agents.. I don't know how we get that from a guy who says he'll jump over the dais, and people deserve to be punched in the mouth and caning and dueling is a good example for the modern congress.

“DACA does NOT confer any form of legal status in this country. Any illegal alien who is a DACA recipient may be subject to arrest and deportation for a number of reasons, including if they’ve committed a crime. Being in detention is a choice,” They arrived as kids. Cruelty is the point

“Dylan is a New Yorker. Dylan, his family, and his community at ELLIS Prep high school will now get back to their lives. But while this is a step towards justice, Dylan will never get back the time he unjustly spent behind bars.”

“I am grateful to everyone who, in one way or another, played a part in offering support and strength, and who was always there,” said his mother, Raiza Contreras. “Very soon, my son will be back with his siblings and me — it is both a relief and a blessing.”

Mullen's nomination has started, with Sen. Paul leading off by basically saying Mullen might be too violent to be DHS Secretary (though at the same time restating myths around fraud and Minnesota) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMVL...

Sen. DURBIN: This is not a public safety operation. It’s an occupation by a paramilitary force. And it is children who are the most harmed by this cruelty.

You could drive an oil tanker through these loopholes

A woman who came to Minnesota in 2019 seeking asylum has been in ICE detention for six weeks while suffering a medical emergency — an ovarian cyst the size of a tennis ball causing extreme pain. Instead of medical care, ICE has offered her another solution: self-deport. by @maxnesterak.bsky.social

ICE is creating a public health crisis. Immigration enforcement is spreading fear in our communities — keeping people from lifesaving HIV prevention & care. No one should have to choose between their health and their safety. https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/too-afraid-to-leave-home-ices-toll

Do not sleep on the massive digital surveillance system DHS is building. Tax data, Medicaid, housing, and now parental support have never been combined is this way. This is unprecedented and horrifying.

This is how Fox News frames the deaths of Pretti and Good. No wonder some people feel little urgency to address ICE and CBP violence www.foxnews.com/politics/dem...

Pretty grossly misleading text message from a group opposing the VA redistricting

Tell Congress to oppose additional funding for DHS and ICE and their dangerous policies: hrc.im/dhs

She's also receiving the Francis Scott Key Key

This is a big win. Kristi Noem was a disaster, and people speaking up got her fired. But Kristi Noem is not the architect of Trump's dangerous mass deportation policies, and we can't let up the pressure. Fire Stephen Miller.

Good news that the execrable Kristi Noem has been fired, but Trump should really be firing Stephen Miller, the primary engineer of the vile ethnic reengineering agenda and murderously violent civic tensions that are sucking all of them into a bottomless political sinkhole, Trump included.

This is good but know Noem was an incompetent figure head, fired not because her agency murdered people and jailed families, but because she put herself in an expensive ad campaign. All of the horrors came from the top. We need cuts and reforms to CBP and ICE. Nothing less should suffice.

Noem starting her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning. Tomorrow, she'll do the House. Will we see some actual oversight or just lies? Follow along with me and see www.senate.gov/isvp/?auto_p...

For the record, immigration advocates were shouting from the rooftops about how terrible it would be to indefinitely lockup someone who shoplifts formula for their baby, as this law requires. I hope our policymakers listen next time.

Would be a good move for Ossoff, Warnock and a bunch of others.

Like so many of the people here, my formative years were spent in the Bush era, shaped by that disastrous presidency and its disastrous overseas wars. It shaped my priors around overseas wars and my skepticism. This will not work out well and will instead just lead to needless death of innocents.

These attacks are illegal, insane, and immoral. The power to declare war lies with Congress and they must act to block this immediately.

Living pretty close to the Pentagon feels like a risky life choice right now...

If your housing policy isn’t speaking specifically to renters, you’re missing the audience.

Notice this statement is missing if someone who doesn't speak English had access to a translator.

Later this year, a new law will end Medicare eligibility for hundreds of thousands of lawfully present older immigrants, including some refugees and asylees. Here's what advocates need to know:

Imagine being a dorm RA, and instead of worrying about students hiding beer, you're now worried about terrifying federal agents suddenly showing up at your front desk and lying to you in order to abduct one of your residents

Medicaid fraud comes from medical device companies, hospitals and unscrupulous doctors, not the low income families that rely on it. But I am guessing that's not what this administration is implying here www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Much like in reconciliation, they're taking from Medicaid to support anti-immigrant cruelty. The connection between dismantling the safety net and mass deportations runs deep.

Remember when Trump yanked funds from Mississippi after learning that the state's welfare chief had directed millions in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to sports celebrities, including not only Brett Favre, but the Million Dollar man and his two pro-wrestler sons? Wait. He didn't.

Good to see Governor Spanberger point out last night the choices made by Trump's immigration cruelty and chaos. The $170 billion to ICE, CBP, etc could be going to health care or housing instead

The people most severely assaulted by ICE/CBP in Minnesota are dead, but glad someone from there will be at SOTU to represent the damage done.

If you face delays at the airport, know that it is because the White House and Noem are refusing to agree to the most basic of restraints on ICE and instead choosing to inflict further pain on the country.

These stories absolutely read like something out of what should be very different countries. Certainly not democracies.

The ICE surge in Minnesota isn’t over — it just moved outside of the Metro. ICE agents are still terrorizing innocent people in the suburbs. They’re targeting bus stops and hospitals and parks and being more deceptive than ever. This isn’t over until ICE is out of the ENTIRE state.

It’s giving middle passage

Way more sympathy for Andrew than for Renée Good, classy

That's quite an admission. I think he's wrong though, because competent law enforcement know that you can't solve crimes if immigrant witnesses refuse to cooperate out of fear of ICE