Anti-ICE rhetoric will see ‘harsh debate’ in upcoming Senate vote: Byron York
Byron York reports that Democrats are deeply divided over funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), setting up a “harsh” Senate debate ahead of a likely 60-vote cloture fight on a Department of Homeland Security funding bill. The split follows an ICE shooting in Minneapolis and House Democrats’ push to remove DHS funding from a minibus package. Senators Ruben Gallego and Chris Murphy have signaled pressure to “restrain” ICE, while York says many Democrats will face a choice between backing efforts to abolish or significantly curb the agency and supporting funding for its role in arresting criminal undocumented immigrants. York predicts enough pro-ICE Democrats, combined with Republicans, will be able to advance funding. The dispute is worrying moderates who fear anti-ICE rhetoric could alienate autonomous voters. Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged President Trump to pull immigration agents from major cities, the Pentagon put roughly 1,500 active-duty troops on standby for a potential Minnesota deployment, and Minneapolis officials say they will avoid escalating tensions.
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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