The D’s do a bad job of framing the issue and they don’t own the shutdown so it comes off as inauthentic.
I would frame it so shutting down the govt is the only reasonable action that can be taken and wanting to open it (w/o doing some other thing first) would be unreasonable.
For example, ICE violates the 4th Amendment by allowing the Govt to go inside your home without a warrant signed by a Judge. I’m happy to give ICE money to do their job but not until they promise you they won’t enter your home without a warrant signed by a Judge.
I think this is a good idea. Framing it as an infringement on liberty might connect with more people than would otherwise pay attention to an immigration issue. The Dems need to come out with stronger demands to start from a better negotiating position; otherwise they will walk away with a bunch of empty promises.
Except the One Big Beautiful Bill funds ICE at global military levels (at levels only third behind the US and China) and the government shutdown won’t affect the ICE budget.
Agreed. Take the attention of the undocumented people and emphasize that this is an assault on American’s freedom. We’ve established among ourselves how we feel about the issue, and bigots aren’t going to come around to our side, so we must concentrate the message on the trampling of the Constitution and the assault on all our rights.
Don’t worry, folks - Chuck Schumer is already working out how to cave on this one too.
Two sources on the call told NBC News that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
According to one of the sources, Schumer told them that the vote won’t come until Thursday and that he discussed the Democratic caucus’ unity in opposition to funding DHS without reforms. He said the five other funding bills apart from the DHS measure are acceptable.