WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted 52-47 to deny President Trump a $10 billion budget infusion for the federal agency that ran a gestapo-like occupation of Minnesota for 2-1/2 months. The Senate vote came the same day that Trump concluded his military occupation of Minnesota was politically untenable and began a retreat. How Minnesota and Wisconsin senators voted:
To deny new ICE funding
> Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin
> Amy Klobchar, D-Minnesota
> Tina Smith, D-Minnesota
Against
> Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin
Trump wanted the $10 billion budget supplement because Homeland Security way overspent no Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota and earlier brutal occupations in Los Angeles, Washington and Chicago and other cities. The original Homeland budget was $29 billion. Homeland’s overspending has implications for other subagencies whose budgets have been drained. Among sub-agencies now entering a temporary shutdown are the Coast Guard and airport security. Their employees are working without salaries until Trump finds a remedy.
Why ICE funding failed
The vote probably would have gone the other way if Trump had agreed to limits on Homeland Security Department operations for immigration and the agency’s related policing activities. These limits were rejected by Trump:
> Targeted enforcement: No entering of private property without a judicial warrant. No indiscriminate arrests. No detention of U.S. citizens.
> Masks: No more face coverings for policing
> Identification: Agents must display their agency, last name, and their agency.
> Off limits: Medical facilities, schools, childcare facilities, churches, polling places, and courts.
> Racial Profiling: No stops, questioning and searches based on an individual’s presence at certain locations, their job, their spoken language and accent or their race and ethnicity.
> Decent policing: No unreasonable use of force. Expanded training of agents. Prompt removed of agents from the field after officer-involved issues pending investigation.
> Local Oversight: Allow jurisdictions to investigate and prosecute excessive force.
> Access to detainees: Allow family and attorney visits to detention facilities. Access to detainees
> Body cameras: Require agents to wear body cameras and to storage footage and allow access.
> Free expression: Prohibit tracking and databases of individuals participating in First Amendment activities.
> No paramilitary: Standardize uniforms and equipment in line with civil law enforcement.
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