The immigration enforcement negotiations
The White House on Tuesday rejected the latest offer from Democratic lawmakers on proposed new constraints on federal immigration officers, the latest sign that there won’t be a quick resolution of the stalemate that’s left the Department of Homeland Security without funding since Saturday, says longtime congressional reporter Carl Hulse of The New York Times.
White House officials and congressional Democrats have kept largely confidential the specifics of their offers to end the standoff that allowed funding for DHS to lapse, Hulse says.
The outlines of the Democratic demands include limits on masked police, an end to random sweeps, new requirements for judicial warrants, and putting “sensitive locations” such as churches, schools, hospitals and polling places off limits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The offer was given to the White House on Monday evening but was brushed aside by the White House less than 24 hours later, Hulse says.
“These are common sense,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said about the Democratic proposals on Sunday on CNN. “Police departments across America use them. We have a rogue agency. Why don’t we rein them in? That’s what the American people are asking Republicans.”
“When it comes to masks, I don’t know of another law enforcement agency in the country that has an 8,000-percent increase in threats,” Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, said Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.” “Just yesterday, the director of ICE, his wife was filmed walking to work. His home address has been doxed. His kids have been doxed and filmed.”
Politico’s article on the talks links to its article last week on “red lines” for the White House.
“The judicial warrants are the key operational thing that [deputy chief of staff] Stephen Miller and the crew do not want to budge on,” according to a GOP strategist who focuses on immigration.
One of the people close to the White House said that if the administration were to agree to requirements on masks and identification, harsher penalties for those who dox federal agents would be necessary.
And the White House would expect major limitations on the sensitive locations proposal, Politico says.
If nothing else, the continuing standoff gives the public more time to weigh in.
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