As another federal government shutdown looms, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell says Democratic colleagues in the Senate need to hold fast on Homeland Security funding.
In the aftermath of fatal confrontations between immigration officers and local residents in Minneapolis, Dingell says there needs to be more restrictions on what ICE agents can and cannot do. She says they can easily pass everything else, as long as DHS funding is removed.
“When American citizens are being killed on video, we are watching it. A VA nurse, who was doing what he was trained to do, go help somebody, when they were in trouble gets killed? We need to ask questions, and we have to stand strong.”
Dingell says ICE has no guardrails and needs to be better regulated before more people get hurt.
Numerous media reports say both sides in the Senate are getting closer to a deal. Any compromise would again have to go to the House for approval.
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