Democrats are holding funding for the Department of Homeland Security hostage in order to extract concessions from the Trump administration on immigration enforcement.
 
Democrats want federal immigration police to be easily identifiable by radical leftists, even though they know it will inevitably result in greater danger to those agents and their families. This isn’t the only thing they want.
 
Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries just released a list of dozens of demands that would destroy illegal immigration enforcement. They include: 

• Blocking federal immigration police from making any arrests without a judicial warrant—not even those illegal aliens who have already ignored a judge’s deportation order. (See next item.) 

• Prohibiting federal immigration police from operating near “sensitive locations,” including courts (where criminal aliens often are) and polling places. The fact that Democrats are so concerned about federal immigration police at polling places exposes the Left’s lie that illegal aliens are not voting in our elections. 

• Preventing federal immigration police from considering someone’s race, where they work, or what language they speak. In other words, immigration police can’t consider the main characteristics that are associated with the foreign nationals who have illegally entered our country. The Supreme Court has already struck down this restriction. 

• They don’t want federal immigration police conducting large-scale operations without the permission of state and local authorities, giving veto power over immigration enforcement to pro-sanctuary city and state Democrats. 

• The Left is also demanding that the president fire Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

 
When you look at their entire agenda, it is clear that Democrats are trying to cancel the results of the 2024 elections by making it impossible for Donald Trump to fulfill his number one promise—the enforcement of our immigration laws. Their demands, if accepted, would be a de facto mass amnesty.
 
It also means we’re likely to go into another government shutdown in less than two weeks, which will hurt the economy and our national security. The Left will benefit.
 
This pro-foreign national, anti-American citizen agenda has strong support among leftist Democrats. But it is not popular among Republicans and Independents. Whether Schumer and Jeffries realize it or not, Republicans have a tremendous opportunity to highlight this striking difference between the two parties. I am doing everything possible to make sure establishment-oriented Republicans in Congress don’t go wobbly.
 
This is a perfect example of what 2027 and 2028 will be like if conservatives don’t show up to vote in massive numbers this November.