Senate Democrats refused to move ahead with a spending bill needed to keep the Department of Homeland Security running because it lacked limits they have demanded on federal immigration agents.
Mind you "limits" don't mean much; ICE and the Border Patrol are happy to do illegal things and ignore courts. The entire current staff of both needs to be prosecuted.
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orclev@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 198d
Oh no, people's genitals will remain un-gropped at airports, how will the country continue to function.
Could they just forget to fund DHS for the next forever, that would be great.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 198d
Did you check that guy with the heavy refrigerator sized luggage with all the radiation warning sings?.... Yeah, he's average, about 5.76" inches why?
ooterness@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 198d
Shut down everything and don't bother starting it up again.
DrFistington@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 198d
At this point, 99% of American people are at higher risk of being killed by the government than they are to be killed by a foreign terrorist.
Unless you go to public school. Then you've got about a 30% change of being killed by a classmate, 69.9999% chance of being killed by the government, and a .0001% chance of dying from a foreign terrorist
slackassassin@piefed.social · 2 pts · 198d
99.976854% of comment statistics are made up
scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 198d
They better not cave. If they need money they can stop pursuing more concentration camps, occupying cities and being Trump ss troops
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 198d
Pretty meaningless long-term, unless they can somehow get BACK all the vast funds ICE has already secured.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 20 pts · 198d
It's not meaningless. The more funding they get the more harm they can do. Keeping the funding level high instead of astronomical will mean fewer Americans will be subject to state-sanctioned violence.
But I do agree that those funds should be clawed back as soon as possible.
That said I expect them to capitulate like they always do. But we'll see.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 198d
That sounds like a fine state of affairs. Ms. Crispy Gnome can do spew bullshit lies for free if she wants to continue doing that.