It’s Not Just the Wall — Democrats Hate Interior Enforcement, Too By Rich Lowry
It’s Not Just the Wall — Democrats Hate Interior Enforcement, Too
My post below on border funding assumes that there is a deal, which isn’t a guarantee. The sticking point at the moment is the interior:
But throughout the talks, Democrats had also been focused on limiting ICE’s ability to detain unauthorized immigrants, which has become a major issue for the party because of their opposition to the Trump administration’s aggressive detention tactics. The Democrats’ proposal included a new limit on detention beds for immigrants picked up not at the border but in the interior of the country.
Democrats wanted to cap that number at 16,500, which they said is around the level of interior detentions in the final years of the Obama administration. Republicans proposed excluding immigrants with criminal records from the cap. But Democrats said that would make the cap toothless, because it would amount to giving ICE free rein to round up thousands of immigrants without criminal records, on top of unlimited numbers of immigrants with criminal convictions.
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