Congressional Democratic leaders are asking ICE to agree to reforms, promising to vote for $11 billion in funding for the agency if it does so. ICE has every reason to concede to the demands — then ignore them once the funding bill passes.
Democrats Propose Minor Reforms for ICE — and Record Funding
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/democrats-ice-reforms-funding-bill/
41 Comments
EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml · 114 pts · 182d
Democrats are fucking worthless
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 51 pts · 182d
Your entire fucking government is worthless; burn it all down and re-build.
EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 182d
Many of us are trying but so many are comfortable with the privileges they have by keeping the status quo. They'll talk one thing and support the opposite. The types that will support the oppressed in a movie then vote for the oppressor in real life.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 182d
They're not worthless. They're doing exactly what they're supposed to do.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 181d
This is a Republican talking point! Stop saying it!
Yes, Dems are shit. But the alternative is WORSE! So stop saying Dems are bad. We can't change them. We can only elect more of them and hope they change themselves.
EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 181d
The only thing Democrats have changed in the last 40 years is becoming more right wing. Democrats of today would have been to the far right of 1980s Reagan. Those same Democrats have enabled Republicans in their march to the right, so electing more of what got us into this mess is never the answer.
TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 181d
It’s not a republican talking point, it’s a literally “everyone on earth watching your limp dicked government opposition enable the fascists” point. Instead of telling people how to think you should do something about your shitty government instead of “hopes and prayers”.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 181d
That better be sarcasm, I can't tell anymore.
Auk@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 182d
Perhaps NY’s 8th will vote this spineless, compromised shill out of office in November.
WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 182d
myserverisdown@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 182d
There's certainly a few people that would hope a bullet helps expedite that election if they vote to hand over ICE funding just like the previous shutdown.
ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 182d
They won't
kreskin@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 182d
Dem leaders yet again drop the ball that was handed to them on a silver platter.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 181d
They work for the same people. The game is rigged
SoupBrick@pawb.social · 29 pts · 182d
If not controlled opposition, why controlled opposition shaped?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 21 pts · 182d
The Democrats need entirely new leadership if they ever want to be taken seriously as a party again. This is just a disgrace...
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 182d
Fuck that noise. I’m visiting D.C. from the PNW, I am most definitely meeting with my elected representatives and demanding a moment of FaceTime. I will be traveling a very long way and by golly, you bet yer sweet bippy I will have a thing or two to carry on about. This is democracy in action. That is my plan, I’ve made arrangements. Will get back to you all as soon as this happens. I travel there in 60 days.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 181d
Good luck. DC is under military occupation
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 181d
Not deterred in the slightest.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 182d
Please primary these 2 clowns
Veedem@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 182d
These useless morons
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 5 pts · 182d
They're not useless! Just for democracy. And people. But not for Trump, they're really useful for Trump!
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 16 pts · 182d
"Why is it always these 2?"
Yes, I know they are the party leadershit.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 182d
Neoliberals only have a problem with authoritarianism when they're not in control.
They don't want to destroy the ring like Gandalf, they want to hide in a hole like Smeagol until they learn to use it.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 182d
Here's what I want Republicans and Democrats to explain - make it make sense how ICE needs all this funding. How did they possibly get by before?
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 182d
They need funding to build more genocide sites
gnuthing@piefed.social · 4 pts · 182d
Incinerators must be expensive
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 181d
German Engineering ain't cheap
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 182d
Trump gotta get his beak wet.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 12 pts · 181d
One of those should be receiving wayy more money than the other, and it's backwards
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · -15 pts · 181d
Only a Russia bot would say this.
grumpusbumpus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 181d
Thank you for providing an implicit demonstration of the output of a grossly underfunded education system.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 181d
👆
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 182d
It starts locally. Show up for local elections. Show up for state elections. Don’t let these people make it to the federal level.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 182d
And when they do make it to the federal level, remember that they want us dead and aren't even remotely close to being on our side.
xc2215x@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 182d
Not good enough.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 182d
If there was an award for understatement, you’d deserve one.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 182d
It's long past time for the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries to get the hook, and be dragged off stage.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 182d
Honestly I’m on the fence about yanking the DHS funding. Trump is just going to fund ICE through other piles of money that he got in the BBB and that he’ll just start cutting other more critical services. Like FEMA, which is under the DHS.
If the Dems can effectively communicate that Trump is using FEMA, TSA, and coastguard money for ICE, then they should cut funding. But I’m not particularly confident about the Dems ability to communicate this. Hell, a lot of people don’t even realize that Trump can still fund ICE if Dems holdback DHS funding. They have not effectively communicated this.
HermitBee@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 182d
Worse - ICE are already fully funded until 2029. As in, they have already been given $75b to spend over the next 3 years. Cut their funding to zero tomorrow and it has zero effect on them until after the next election.
Binturong@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 182d
You act like this is a dialogue, like the tRump republicans are there, in good faith, listening. Catch up, there can be no compromise cause they're not looking for it, all the Dems can do is obstruct by any means possible, even if they have to get creative, because any other action will simply be capitulation to the demands of the administration. That is if they're actually committed to democracy and the welfare of the American public, and not their donors' outcomes. Which I personally think you have to be deluded to think, at least in regard to the party leadership, who consistently makes the exact wrong move every time (for Americans, that is).
daannii@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 182d
Harkeem and Schumer. Who else. ?