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Today’s Senate vote is an important first step toward unifying Democrats against the escalating violence carried out by ICE and Border Patrol in our communities. Republicans don’t have the votes to jam through this toxic DHS bill.

npr.orgSenate fails to advance spending bills as Democrats push for DHS reformsSenators blocked a package of six spending bills that includes funding for the Department of Homeland Security as Democrats continue to push for reforms to immigration enforcement.

The obvious path forward is to pull DHS out of the broader appropriations package, pass the remaining five bills, and get to work totally remaking the DHS bill to stop this terror and lawlessness. Republicans need to come to the table.

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And Democrats must ensure they do not settle for anything less than ending the reckless operation in Minnesota and pulling ICE and Border Patrol out of Minneapolis and the rest of our communities, ending family detentions, ending arrests without warrants, and full cooperation…

…with an independent investigation into the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. We need justice, accountability, and freedom from this oppression. To be extremely clear, any shutdown of any federal agency is due solely to the inaction and cruelty of Republicans.

The famous saying from mass media studies is: "Media doesn't tell you what to think; but it does tell you what to think about." Where is Venezuela? Where is Epstein? Aren't there still people in prison in El Salvador? And isn't there still a war going on in Ukraine?

The GOP has thus far insisted on cutting blank checks to Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to order goons to kidnap our children and kill people in the streets. Enough. We refuse to be held hostage by this brutality.