The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced a reconciliation bill Wednesday that would allocate more than $17 billion to fund immigration enforcement agencies for fiscal year 2026, clearing the measure for a potential floor vote as early as this week over unified Democratic opposition.
Democratic district attorneys across the country announced Monday they will arrest and prosecute federal agents who appear at polling locations, hours before six states opened voting in the 2026 midterm primaries.
Jose Ceballos-Armendariz, the former two-term mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, turned himself in to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the agency's Wichita office Wednesday, a month after pleading guilty to illegally voting in several American elections as a Mexican green card holder.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown, demanding that she enter an agreement with ICE to enforce federal immigration policy.
House Republicans passed a budget blueprint Wednesday to begin unlocking federal funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on day 74 of the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, before leaving Washington for a two-week recess.
The Senate voted 50-48 early Thursday morning to adopt a budget resolution that would allow Republicans to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol through a partisan reconciliation bill, bypassing the 60-vote threshold required to defeat a Democratic filibuster.
