Senate Democrats Pushing Bureaucratic Amnesty into DHS Funding Bill

Senate Democrats Pushing Bureaucratic Amnesty into DHS Funding Bill


Senate Democrats are using the uproar over the Antifa-style resistance in Minneapolis to push a bureaucratic amnesty into the pending legislation that funds the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Multiple GOP Senators are walking in lockstep with Democrats by urging President Donald Trump to deport only violent migrants. The “criminal migrant” plan would allow business donors to sideline millions of Americans while hiring millions of non-violent, low-wage, illegal-migrant workers.

Politico reported that Democrats will refuse to fund the agency’s annual bill unless the GOP agrees to cripple ICE enforcement with a series of bureaucratic curbs on deportations:

Those include requiring judicial [judge-signed] warrants for immigration arrests, overruling a recently disclosed ICE memo asserting they are not required. Other potential Democratic amendments would mandate

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