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Democrats Push Trump Administration on Immigration Oversight

Katherine Gypson

   CAPITOL HILL - Congressional Democrats hope to put last month's scuffle
   over the $4.6 billion emergency border bill behind them with renewed
   oversight of the Trump administration's immigration policies and
   legislation to strengthen protections for families detained at the
   U.S.-Mexico border.

   The push comes amid reports Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
   will begin nationwide immigration raids Sunday.

   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday, "It's never too
   late to do the right thing for the children, and when it comes to
   children, again, I'm the lioness, I'm just going to protect our cubs.
   And so we're going to use every legislative tactic at our disposal."

   House legislation

   House Democrats introduced a series of measures earlier this week
   intended to address the gap between a House-passed bill restricting the
   Trump administration's operations on the border and the Senate version
   of the bill that ended up passing both chambers in June.

   Democratic leadership [1]had to quell a rebellion from House
   progressives who objected to voting for the Senate version of the bill,
   which provided emergency funding to address the humanitarian crisis at
   the border. A handful of Democrats refused to vote for that bill on the
   groundit enabled the Trump administration's treatment of
   asylum-seekers.

References

   1. https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-politics/pelosi-struggles-hold-fractious-us-house-democrats-together

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