Republicans in US Senate unveil road map for 3 years of immigration crackdown

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Nebraska Examiner

By: Jennifer Shutt - April 21, 2026 12:04 pm

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Congress appeared to be on the same page Tuesday about how to fund immigration activities for the next three years as they released a party-line measure that will pave the way for a special process known as budget reconciliation.

But they weren’t unified about another problem — when to clear a bipartisan funding bill for the vast majority of the Department of Homeland Security that would end a shutdown that’s been underway since mid-February.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said during a morning press conference he wanted to make sure funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol isn’t left behind and that’s why he’s held back a Senate-passed bill that would fund most of the shuttered DHS programs.

“There’s some concern on our side that if you do the bulk of the department first before that, then they could be left out. We can’t allow for that,” Johnson said. “So we’re working through that. The sequencing is important.”


ICE agents search the passenger of a truck as they arrest both him and the driver during a traffic stop on Feb. 11, 2026 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer)

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1. And so where is Immigration Service going to get more workers for US Businesses when they throw out

(illegally by the way) workers who are here in the US LEGALLY to work and tRUMP's messed up stooges mess up jobs by the 100s of thousands?

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2. The ICE agenda is despised by the public. Leaving it out is the point for R's that want to save their hides.

Another "It's not a bug, it's a feature (that we cowards want to pretend isn't a feature)."

Such conflicts abound among the weak and sniveling, immoral, sycophantic people who have managed to rise in a party that is corrupt and destructive beyond all words.