The Senate Advances 2 Week Funding Bill For DHS. Now To The House. We Are Now Having The Debate About DHS/ICE We Simply Must HaveNeed to be very, very loud this week everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Morning all. Last night the Senate passed a two week extension (Continuing Resolution) of funding for DHS and 5 separate appropriations bills. Funding has run out for a great deal of the US government as of this morning, for Mike Johnson, The Cowardly Speaker, once again choose to keep his Members home rather than let them do their jobs. House Members return late Monday when they are expected to take up both packages. In my late morning post yesterday we reviewed some of the the ideas Congressional Dems are proposing to rein in ICE. Taken together they would make meaningful reforms to DHS, CPB, and ICE. Our highest priority these next few weeks is to fight alongside our Dem leaders to get as good a package of reforms as we can. In my post yesterday I argued there is one important piece missing from the emerging Congressional proposals, and that’s clarifying ICE’s mission and targets. The NYT has reporting that shows how important this is - ICE is arresting and shackling legal immigrants to the US without warning, detaining them for weeks in Texas, and then releasing them without facilitating their trips back home. Just read this excerpt from a NYT article, They ‘Had Done Everything Right.’ ICE Detained Them Anyway. It’s harrowing:
Last night DHS failed to comply with a judge’s order to provide a list of these refugees to the court: In the last few days 5 journalists in the US have also been arrested, detained and then released by a judge. The process for legal immigrants and citizens - not criminal migrants - is now becoming the same - arrest, detain, humiliate, disrupt, terrorize, release. This ain’t and never been about “criminal migrants.” Another way Trump-Vance-Miller are targeting legal migrants - not criminal migrants - is by abruptly ending what’s called TPS - Temporary Protected Status - for millions who’ve fled countries like Afghanistan, Haiti, and Venezuela. I am going to do another long excerpt from a new NYT article for it’s important to understand the gravity and inhumanity of what’s happening here. On Tuesday the regime is ending TPS for 330,000 Haitians living in the US:
It is critical that Democrats force the regime, and their Republican in allies, to make clear what the real plan is here. For here is a list of the potential targets for a super-charged ICE and what Greg Sargent has called their ethnic cleansing campaign: That’s 60 million people, or 18% of the current total population of the United States. Of the 34 million immigrants who are not citizens, estimates are that between 500,000 and 1 million people have criminal records. We should be able to, with existing capacity, remove all those people in a few years without terrorizing communities and legal immigrants. So what is ICE doing exactly, and why does it need all this additional money? We need to level set here for a moment. Miller’s goal this past year has been 3,000 deportations a day, or about a million a year. If the regime is in reality targeting, let’s say, all undocumented immigrants, TPS holders, and others legally here today but not yet green card holders that’s between 15 and 18 million people. At a million a year that means they are planning on having this terror regime in place across American cities for at least 15 years. Yes, at least 15 years. Not only does the public not support ICE’s current brutal tactics, there is no public support for mass deportation beyond criminal migrants. In this poll, and it is consistent with public opinion going back 20 years, Americans oppose deporting long settled undocumented immigrants by 65%-22%, making it among the least popular policies Trump has pursued in the past year: This is why in the coming debate about DHS and ICE we must force the regime to explain what their “mass deportation” strategy is. They’ve been lying again and again claiming this is all about pursuing criminals. It is a false, outrageous, malevolent cover story they keep repeating to mask their true intent, which I think is two fold - 1) to deport tens and tens of millions of immigrants, as many as they can, over a decade or more 2) build ICE into a government-backed militia loyal to the regime to attack and degrade their domestic political opponents, including journalists, similar to the Revolutionary Guard in Iran. In the coming debate we must force the regime to explain why DHS needs all this extra money. Why we must spend for example $40b - $40 billion! - on detention centers (USAID’s annual budget was $30b)? Who is going to be detained there? Criminals? Long settled undocumented immigrants? Refugees? Green card holders? Democrats? Journalists like Don Lemon? Why do people have to be detained at all? Why did ICE arrest and fly those hundreds of legal refugees from Minnesota to Texas, or the young child we’ve seen? Why the expense of the flights and detention? Yesterday we learned that ICE has already begun spending that enhanced detention money and is buying warehouse - yes warehouse - space across the US: Yesterday Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment to the Senate package to claw back the $75b DHS received from the big ugly bill this past summer. It failed, 49-51, but two Republicans - Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski - did vote with us. Every Democrat in the Senate voted to claw back this money. The ground has shifted on these issues in recent weeks. Approval for ICE and Trump’s mass deportation policies has plummeted. Look at this level of opposition YouGov found in its polling this week: The Senate Democrats were successful in forcing the regime and Congressional Republicans into a sustained debate now about these incredibly dangerous, inhumane, and unpopular policies. We need to approach these next few weeks with confidence that we have the country behind us and must do everything we can to stop where we all know this is headed. We must rein in DHS and ICE, but we must also work to roll back the additional DHS funding from the big ugly bill - it is an extraordinary waste of money, equal to two years - yes two years of the ACA subsidies that Republicans refused to extend. For as I’ve been saying 2026 is a year for us to win the mid-terms but also a year for us to become far more effective at reining in Trump-Vance-Miller and stopping our accelerating slide into autocracy. Now, Lets Get To Work PeopleKeep contacting your Congressional reps and demand they rein in ICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Big week ahead! Winning The Midterms - Support Our Candidates
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