WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday with no meaningful constraints on President Donald Trump’s often violent crackdown on immigrants in Minnesota and other blue states across the country.
Seven Democrats voted with all but one Republican to approve the bill, sending it to the Senate over the objections of Minnesota’s Democratic lawmakers.
“It is unjustifiable to shoot an American citizen in the face, to have masked men jumping out of unmarked cars asking American citizens for their papers,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) told HuffPost. “And this is not just happening in Minneapolis, it’s happening across Minnesota, and we cannot normalize this terror that our communities are feeling.”
The legislation includes $10 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and $18 billion for Customs and Border Protection, the two federal agencies conducting sweeping raids involving thousands of federal agents in areas including Minnesota and, most recently, Maine. That’s on top of the unprecedented $75 billion boost in funding ICE received from Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill that Republicans passed unilaterally last year.
