'An impossibility': Negotiations to reform ICE sputter as shutdown looms for DHS [View all]
Source: NBC News
Feb. 5, 2026, 8:01 PM EST
WASHINGTON — Congress is struggling to make progress in negotiations to avoid a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security next week, leaving the two parties squabbling as the House and the Senate left town for a long weekend.
DHS funding expires Feb. 13, and the talks are stuck in neutral.
Democrats insisted on a short leash for the department in the recent government funding package as they make demands to rein in ICE and U.S. Border Patrol after federal agents killed two American citizens in Minneapolis.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both New York Democrats, issued a list of 10 demands Wednesday evening. They include requiring immigration agents to conduct operations unmasked; show identification; obtain judicial warrants for various operations, which ICE does not require to forcibly enter homes; and steer clear of sensitive locations like schools and churches.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/-impossibility-negotiations-reform-ice-sputter-shutdown-looms-dhs-rcna257552
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