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Senator Merkley says over one hundred billion in DHS funds remain unused as Republicans seek more

Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley says at a weekly news conference shortly before Republicans released a budget resolution providing for funding under budget reconciliation for immigration enforcement that the 140 billion dollars Republicans want for ICE and Border Patrol instead of health care, housing or education would fund secret police for mass roundups of dark skinned individuals with no reforms requiring warrants to enter homes, ending unmarked uniforms and unidentified vans or stopping detainments in which individuals have extraordinary difficulty reaching family or an attorney, and she noted that one hundred and three billion dollars from the seventy five billion appropriated last year in HR 160 remains unobligated for CBP and ICE proving they already have funding and do not need more without accountability.
Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley says at a weekly news conference shortly before Republicans released a budget resolution providing for funding under budget reconciliation for immigration enforcement that the 140 billion dollars Republicans want for ICE and Border Patrol instead of health care, housing or education would fund secret police for mass roundups of dark skinned individuals with no reforms requiring warrants to enter homes, ending unmarked uniforms and unidentified vans or stopping detainments in which individuals have extraordinary difficulty reaching family or an attorney, and she noted that one hundred and three billion dollars from the seventy five billion appropriated last year in HR 160 remains unobligated for CBP and ICE proving they already have funding and do not need more without accountability.
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