U.S. House Approves Funding for Homeland Security Amidst Controversy
The U.S. House of Representatives recently approved a funding bill that directs approximately $63 billion to the Department of Homeland Security, with a significant portion of around $10 billion allocated specifically to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This decision comes on the heels of a previous allocation of nearly $75 billion to the agency through a comprehensive Republican spending bill enacted last summer.
The latest legislative move was passed with a vote tally of 220-207. Notably, this bill does not include several oversight measures that Democrats had advocated for, such as detailed use-of-force guidelines and mandates for agents to reveal their identities.
Public criticism has been mounting over ICE’s enforcement practices in locations such as Minneapolis, influencing the voting pattern. In Arizona, all Republican lawmakers supported the bill’s progression, whereas their Democratic counterparts uniformly opposed it. Furthermore, Senator Ruben Gallego has indicated his intention to vote against the bill when it reaches the Senate.
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