As Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues its crackdown in Minneapolis and President Donald Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act, Democrats are targeting the money Republicans gave to beef up the agency as a way to slow the agency's aggressive deportation push.
Some have called on Congress to pull funding for ICE as a way to rein in the agency. The calls have intensified after the shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota by an ICE agent, which sparked protests. The Trump administration has refused ot change tactics and surged even more officers into the area to make deportation arrests.
When Republicans passed their "One Big, Beautiful Bill," they included massive increases for ICE, including $29.9 billion for enforcement operations and an additional $45 billion to build new detention facilities.
"I will not vote for one more dime for Trump's lawless ice operations, and that's why they're working to try to rein in those operations," Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland told The Independent.
As The Independent reported earlier this week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the democratic socialist vanguard from New York, has drilled home the point that the money used to pay for ICE funding in the bill came from cuts to health care.
But beyond that, Democrats are split on what exactly to do about ICE and ways to declaw the agency.
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