I was actually drafting a post on exactly this point yesterday, but it got delayed due to my burnout from the never-ending flood of news
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This can't be said enough. If ICE is causing tension in communities, that could largely be addressed by cooperation with local law enforcement. But local law enforcement isn't allowed to cooperate because the goal is not reduced violence -- it's ending all immigration enforcement https://t.co/uYj4oexeTl
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) January 14, 2026
Frey: "Imagine if your city or town was invaded by thousands of federal agents that do not share the values that you hold dear."
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 15, 2026
Funny how this logic never applies to the invasion of illegal aliens. pic.twitter.com/J8Y36l6u9B
The author of the linked-to article suggests cutting off all funding to “sanctuary cities”, but that’s not only not going to happen — lack of votes to rescind specific programs (the Republicans like this graft every much as their co-conspirators across the aisle do — but doesn’t go far enough. It isn’t just sanctuary cities or even blue states that want the illegals to stay, it’s the entire Democratic Party. They intentionally threw open the border four years ago and are fighting a delaying action until they can regain control and bring in more.
The latest maneuver is to shut down the government again:
DHS at center of progressive revolt as House advances $80B spending package
The deadline to avert a partial government shutdown is Jan 30
Glaring questions still remain, however, over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as progressives threaten to withhold support from any such bill unless it's paired with significant reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The push comes from the left in response to an ICE agent shooting 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen who was driving her car when it made physical contact with a law enforcement official who then fatally shot her..
DHS funding was initially expected to be part of this minibus, but House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., told reporters earlier this week he would like to see the bill as part of the final package that's also expected to include funding for the Department of War, Department of Transportation, Department of Labor, the Education Department and Health and Human Services, among others.
But the top Democrat on the panel, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., told reporters Tuesday she wanted to see DHS funding as a separate bill.
"It's got to be by itself," DeLauro said. "It's got to be separate."
Here’s your Ranking Member of the House Appropriation Committee, on tap to resume the Chairmanship of the committee when her party regains control later this year, Connecticut’s own, Rosa DeLauro. She hold the fate of the nation in her gnarled, 83-year-old hands:
