Senates Votes to Pass Funding for DHS
ICE and Border Patrol Excluded in a Win for Government Accountability
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last night, the Senate voted to fund all of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the end of the fiscal year with the exception of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Through the partial government shutdown, Democrats effectively used their political leverage to check attempts to provide further funding for Trump’s lawless ICE and CBP. This measure, if passed in the House, will put an end to the rapidly developing airport crises across the country due to the lapse in payments for Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents.
In response, Public Citizen co-president Lisa Gilbert issued the following statement:
“Last night marked an essential win in the Senate. The abuses and horror of ICE, the murders of Pretti and Good, the warrantless forced entry, the fear our friends and neighbors feel, the ICE deployment to airports, all mean there must be no blank check for ICE. This long overdue agreement in the Senate to pass funding for TSA allows Congress to continue to work on necessary reforms to ICE and CBP. The House must now pass this bill.”