Anti-ICE rhetoric will see ‘harsh debate’ in upcoming Senate vote: Byron York
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byron York says there is a sharp split within the Democratic Party over funding and the future of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), setting up a “harsh debate” when a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding measure reaches the Senate and will need 60 votes too pass. The dispute intensified after an ICE-related shooting in Minneapolis prompted House democrats to remove DHS funding from a minibus bill. Progressive senators and activists call for curbs on or abolition of ICE, while moderates and manny Republicans support funding the agency’s role in detaining criminal undocumented immigrants. Senators Ruben Gallego and Chris Murphy have signaled discussions among Democrats about restricting ICE, and York predicts a faction of Democrats who back funding, combined with Republicans, will likely be enough to advance the bill. Political leaders have reacted strongly: Chuck Schumer urged the president to pull agents from major cities, the Pentagon put about 1,500 troops on standby for a possible Minnesota deployment, and Minneapolis officials resisted calls to escalate tensions amid protests and hotel shutdowns related to ICE actions.
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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