Anti-ICE rhetoric will see ‘harsh debate’ in upcoming Senate vote: Byron York
Byron York reports increasing tension in the Democratic Party over funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following a recent ICE shooting in Minneapolis. House Democrats removed a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill from a minibus, and senators such as Ruben Gallego and Chris Murphy say the Senate must debate restraints on ICE. York predicts a “harsh debate” in the Senate, where the DHS bill would need 60 votes to advance, with Democrats split between those who want to fund ICE and those who favor restricting or abolishing it. He argues most Americans back ICE’s role in detaining criminal undocumented immigrants, but there is disagreement over how to treat noncriminal undocumented people. Senate leaders and city officials have clashed publicly-Chuck Schumer urged the White House to pull agents from major cities-and the Pentagon has put roughly 1,500 troops on standby amid protests and unrest in Minnesota. moderates worry anti-ICE rhetoric could alienate independents, while supporters of funding may combine with Republicans to move the bill forward.
Anti-ICE rhetoric will see ‘harsh debate’ in upcoming Senate vote: Byron York
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said there is “division” within the Democratic Party over the funding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
House Democrats asked that a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security be removed from a “minibus” after the ICE shooting in Minneapolis this month. As the Senate waits for the bill to fund DHS, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said Sunday he is speaking with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), who wrote on X that Senate Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t “restrain” the agency.
York said that this DHS bill, should it get to the Senate, will require the necessary 60 votes to pass, ahead of which there will be a “real harsh debate.”
“Because I think most people would agree that the American people support the work of ICE in rounding up criminal illegal aliens,” York said on Fox News’s America Reports Monday. “On that other issue that I was talking about, people who are in the United States illegally but have not committed additional crimes, there is some disagreement on that, and I think it’s going to play out in the Senate debate over this.”
York also said the split among Democrats regarding ICE is the “fundamental dividing line,” predicting some Democrats will look to “abolish” the agency while others will seek to fund it. He said that the latter group will provide “enough” votes, combined with all Republicans, to advance the funding to the Senate.
York added that the Democrats are vehemently opposed to ICE “scares” moderates within the party who are concerned about this mindset pushing away independent voters.
MINNESOTA HOTELS SHUT DOWN AMID ICE PROTESTS OVER ‘HEIGHTENED PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS’
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) asked President Donald Trump to withdraw immigration agents from major cities during a visit to the White House on Thursday. Schumer told the president that the ICE raids are “dangerous and putting more people at risk.”
The Pentagon has ordered roughly 1,500 active-duty troops to remain on standby for a possible deployment to Minnesota, the state where the ICE shooting occurred in Minneapolis. Jacob Frey, the city’s mayor, said Sunday that the city will not “take the bait” and counter Trump’s “chaos with our own brand of chaos here.”
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