February 11, 2019
THE WHIP HAND:
Shutdown talks take a turn for the worse (MARIANNE LEVINE, HEATHER CAYGLE and BURGESS EVERETT, 02/10/2019, Politico)
Among the issues Democratic negotiators are focused on is Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests of undocumented immigrants already in the U.S., not just crossing the border. They also insist they want a cap on detention beds to force ICE to prioritize which undocumented immigrants it targets within the U.S., and they say that without it, the agency will increase deportation raids in local communities without valid reason.The latest impasse suggests Democrats are not seeing much incentive to concede to the Trump administration's requests for billions of dollars in border wall money, after winning the last round of shutdown negotiations.
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 11, 2019 3:56 AM