Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Democrats have presented their Republican colleagues with reforms for immigration enforcement as lawmakers face a looming deadline to pass a Department of Homeland Security funding package.
Lawmakers have until Feb. 13 to pass legislation to fund DHS for fiscal year 2026 or risk a shutdown of the department. While negotiations are ongoing, Democrats and Republicans appear leagues apart.
On Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Democratic leaders presented a list of 10 reform demands for immigration enforcement in response to aggressive tactics used by agents that resulted in the deaths of U.S. protesters in Minneapolis last month.
To reporters, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Senate and House Democrats were "united" in their aim to rein in Immigration and Customs Enforcement "and a Trump administration that is actually unleashing state-sponsored violence on the American people and on law-abiding immigrant families."
"That's completely and totally unacceptable, it's unconscionable and it's un-American," Jeffries, D-N.Y., said during the press conference.
