Anti-ICE rhetoric will see ‘harsh debate’ in upcoming Senate vote: Byron York
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Byron York reports that a sharp split within the Democratic Party over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is set to produce a “real harsh debate” when the Senate considers a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that will require 60 votes. House Democrats moved to remove the DHS measure from a minibus after an ICE-related shooting in Minneapolis, and senators including Ruben Gallego and Chris Murphy have signaled calls to restrain the agency. York says most Americans support ICE’s role in removing criminal undocumented immigrants, but Democrats disagree about how to treat noncriminal undocumented people-some pushing to abolish ICE while others want to fund it-creating a key dividing line that coudl decide the outcome. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged President Trump to pull immigration agents from major cities, and authorities have taken security steps: about 1,500 active-duty troops were placed on standby for a possible Minnesota deployment and hotels in minnesota closed amid protests.Moderates worry that aggressive anti-ICE rhetoric could alienate independent voters.
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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