On the recordMay 8, 2019
Funding for ICE's Homeland Security Investigations...would be diverted to fund interior immigration enforcement arrests and deportations instead.
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congress.govFunding for ICE's Homeland Security Investigations...would be diverted to fund interior immigration enforcement arrests and deportations instead.
Critique of funding shifts away from critical investigations to enforcement.
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