It creates uncertainty regarding ICEs capability to detain and deport dangerous criminals and to transfer unaccompanied children to HHS for humane treatment. It could also delay needed procurements and necessary security upgrades at the White House complex to prevent fencejumper intrusions. Most confoundingly. the bill provides immigration enforcement agencies with hundreds of millions of dollars less than their known needs and what our bipartisan bill would have provided. If the Republican majority is concerned about the effectiveness of our immigration policy. this is really a strange way to show it. To hold enforcement funding hostage is no way to bring about positive change. But we know this is all about political pique directed at the President.
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