Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth is accusing ICE of “needlessly" detaining a 5-year-old child with his illegal immigrant father after the agency said his mother refused to take custody.
The Senate on Friday passed an amended spending package that replaces a full-year Department of Homeland Security funding bill with a two-week stopgap to give lawmakers time to hash out policy disagreements over immigration enforcement.
A government shutdown is all but guaranteed after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., says the earliest action on a Senate-passed spending bill would be Monday.