Democrats Want To Stop Deportations By Shutting Down DHS
An opinion piece from The Federalist, written by Eddie Scarry, argues that Democrats are attempting to leverage a potential shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security to force immigration reform. The article claims that without additional DHS funding, agencies like the Transportation Security governance and the Federal Emergency Management Agency would be shut down, while Immigration and customs Enforcement would continue operating due to billions already provided by last year’s funding. it contends that such a move would disrupt travel and emergency response without actually stopping deportations, as ICE and CBP would remain funded. Citing analyses from The Washington Post, the piece notes that the main impact would fall on DHS components other than ICE/CBP, affecting a important portion of the federal workforce. The author portrays Democrats as negotiating without real leverage and argues they are prioritizing thier anti-immigration voter base, concluding that a DHS shutdown would be politically counterproductive and harmful to the public.
Just like the last time Democrats threw the government into a shutdown, they have no leverage but are now withholding votes to fund the Department of Homeland Security while making ridiculous demands that the Trump administration is entertaining.
If Congress doesn’t push more money to DHS by Saturday, funding to TSA and FEMA will be cut off this weekend. Democrat leaders say they won’t agree to any deal that doesn’t reform Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is to say, make it effectively impossible to deport illegal aliens.
But everyone in Washington knows Democrats are in no position to force concessions, given that even without more money for DHS, ICE remains funded with billions in cash by way of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” law passed last year. In short, the hand Democrats are playing is: Neuter immigration law enforcement or they’re going to clog up air travel and federal emergency response assistance.
This would be like needing a last-minute babysitter and telling the only person available that if she can’t watch your kids, you’re not only going to stay home, but you’ll also send them to bed without any dinner.
Alright?
A DHS shutdown isn’t going to stop deportations, and it won’t force any changes to ICE. It’s going to screw up the public’s travel plans and put lives at risk should there be a major disaster somewhere.
This is all acknowledged even by the dying news media, which otherwise never admits when a shutdown is politically stupid for Democrats. From The Washington Post on Thursday:
This shutdown would affect only DHS — but it would not shutter Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Customs and Border Protection, because Republicans sent those agencies tens of billions of dollars in additional funding last year that would allow them to continue to operate.
Instead, the brunt of a shutdown would fall on the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Coast Guard and other agencies within DHS. It would affect about 13 percent of the federal civilian workforce, most of whom would be forced to work without pay, according to data from DHS and the Office of Personnel Management.“
This is, per usual, a fight Democrats don’t have to pick but have chosen to anyway because their irrational, anti-American voter base will accept nothing less than constant conflict. Democrat leaders in Congress issued a list of demands last week that they said would be needed in order to secure their support for more DHS funding. Even with the White House in agreement on some of them — mandatory ICE agent body cameras, for example — Democrat Senate Leader Charles Schumer said Wednesday that Republicans “have not gotten serious about negotiating a solution.”
Of course. Because this isn’t about reforming ICE. It’s about halting the removal of illegal aliens, that is, the Democrat Party’s most prized constituency. Only when every foreigner who wants to stay in this country is permitted taxpayer-funded lawyers and endless appeals of their removal will Democrats be satisfied.
Much like last time, Democrats are negotiating with nothing. They’re the ones who haven’t gotten serious. And they never will.
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