Here's how to constrain ICE
Here's how to constrain ICE Senators vote tomorrow on ICE's funding. Call them and tell them to vote NO. Robert Reich Jan 28 Greg Casar, speaks at a rally against ICE in Austin, Texas, on 10 January Friends, Apologies for intruding on your inbox again, but the Senate will vote on ICE funding TOMORROW. Please call your senators now at 202-224-3121 and say NO more funding for ICE. You might hear from some skeptics that this will do no good because ICE can merely tap the $75 billion that Republicans gave it in their Big Ugly bill. True, but misleading. The current Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill includes an extra $10 billion for ICE. No reason in hell why ICE should have that. You’ll also hear from skeptics that if Democratic senators don’t vote for the appropriations bill, they’ll be tying up funding for seven other departments, too. (The same appropriations bill funds Defense, Treasury, Heath and Human Services, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Transp...