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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    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.

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      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?

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    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

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    Pretty meaningless long-term, unless they can somehow get BACK all the vast funds ICE has already secured.

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      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.

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    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.