One America News Network By Brooke Mallory
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) remains in a state of partial shutdown on Monday after a weekend of failed negotiations on Capitol Hill. While the rest of the federal government remains open and funded through September, the lapse for DHS has left roughly 260,000 employees in limbo as the White House and Senate Democrats remain deadlocked over “reforms” to immigration enforcement.
Additionally, on Friday, the DHS informed a federal court that — due to the expiration of certain congressional funding restrictions amid the partial shutdown — it could now reinstate a policy limiting or banning unannounced visits by federal lawmakers to ICE detention centers.
Government lawyers argued in filings to U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb that the lapse of the relevant appropriations rider eliminated the legal basis for prior court orders blocking such restrictions. This move escalates the ongoing dispute over congressional oversight of immigration detention facilities during the funding standoff…
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