Posted on 01/29/2026 3:04:43 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Another government shutdown looks increasingly likely by the end of the week. Democrats are demanding that major changes to Department of Homeland Security enforcement policy be written directly into the budget agreement. Those changes would largely shut down President Trump’s deportation efforts.
Trump has already made some changes. For example, DHS removed Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino – who had become a political lightning rod – from his assignment in Minneapolis. Democrats, however, are pressing for far more sweeping changes. They want to require judicial warrants for immigration arrests, force ICE agents to be easily identifiable, and grant states the authority to conduct their own investigations of federal ICE agents. Democrats have also demanded body cameras for ICE agents, even though the current budget proposal already funds them.
After the unprecedented percentage increase in violent crime during the Biden administration, Democrats may be pushing to halt deportations to prevent Republicans from getting credit for the sharp drop in violent crime that appears to have started last year. New evidence shows that illegal aliens commit crimes at rates at least 3.4 times higher than their share of the population. At the same time, about 47% of ICE detainees have criminal charges or convictions in the United States, and it is possible that an additional 23% have criminal records in their home countries. Removing hundreds of thousands of offenders through immigration enforcement could therefore have a meaningful impact on crime in the United States and help explain the huge drop in crime last year. Strong enforcement could also deter future crimes by signaling that arrest for criminal activity is likely to result in deportation, not release back into the community.
The vast majority of ICE’s 600,000 arrests and detentions last year through the beginning of December relied...
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Oh Hell no. Do not let the left rewrite one law to drawdown American pride and citizenship by importing third world turds.
more power to them! because the big beautiful bill gave Trump enough money to fund border control for the next 3+ years!
LMAO
sorry libs!
Thanks again Republicans...NOT
Shut it down. Who cares?
Slightly off topic, but of interest. MN might want to think about shutting down the violent protests before someone else gets killed.
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JUST IN — A jury has found the City of Seattle negligent and liable for the 2020 CHAZ/CHOP killing of Antonio Mays Jr.
The family has been awarded roughly $30 MILLION.
Deport the ‘Rat Senators [and the Seven assistant ‘Rat GOPeers].
THat's GREAT! Can we get it in writing?
Look at those demands. It would totally shut down all immigration enforecement.
Weird how they suddenly want to document and go through a stringent process
Time to shut down ALL immigration..the borders are closed.
Shut it down. Just think of all the billions in fraud we will save by not being able to pay it out. Wonder how those fraudsters will feel about democrats when the money runs out?
No. Don’t allow this.
“Democrats Using Shutdown Threat To Rewrite Immigration Enforcement”
given the disaster to the Dems during their last pointless shutdown, you’d think they wouldn’t do it again, esp. so soon , right? ... wrong! ... still, it’s gonna be popcorn time if the Dems are really stupid enough to do this again!
I wonder which Rinos (and/or Independent Losertarian) will join the Rats on this?
“Nuts!”
It’s is time for the American people to start bringing lawsuits, ONE AFTER ANOTHER after the far left POS trying to turn America into a third world subhuman, foreign crap hole. As for the far left crybaby “prosecuters”. HAUL ASS! We don’t need your infiltrator crybaby tantrum asses anymore. Adios.
The Democrat/Communist Party leadership would get away with this with 90% of the GOP caucus ... but not with Trump. I’m confident that he will counteract any damage they attempt quickly and completely.
There is no way this should be allowed.
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