From Washington Times
Remember the politicians who joined the “defund the police” mobs in 2020? When it came to putting their money where their mouths were, most of the rhetoric turned out to be posturing. Nobody with a political future wanted to be responsible for leaving the public at the mercy of criminals.
Something similar is happening now.
Congressional Democrats are playing hardball with funding for the Department of Homeland Security. If they get everything they want, then U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will be put in more danger while doing their jobs, sanctuary cities will have an operational veto on federal immigration enforcement, and illegal aliens will once again roam free within U.S. borders.
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sent a letter to Republican leadership in Congress earlier this month demanding that ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection adopt certain “reforms.” If they didn’t, then Democrats wouldn’t vote to fund the Homeland Security Department in the 2026 fiscal year.