“Restraining the Department of Homeland Security is important for its own sake.”

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“Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, labeled ICE a “rogue agency” on Sunday as he called on Republicans to agree to the limits that Democrats have called for.“Why don’t we rein them in? That’s what the American people are asking Republicans,” he told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “And that’s why they’re going to have to go along with us.””

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“Senate Democrats refused to move ahead with a spending bill needed to keep the Department of Homeland Security running because it lacked limits they have demanded on federal immigration agents.”

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“The account owner alerted the A.C.L.U., which filed a motion on Oct. 16 to quash the government’s request. In a hearing on Jan. 14 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the A.C.L.U. argued that the government was using administrative subpoenas to target people whose speech it did not agree with.”

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“CBP, which has been deployed to war zones abroad for years, is increasingly behaving like an occupying army in American cities.”

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