The Democrats’ Efforts to Rein in ICE

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

Senate Democrats scored a victory on Friday by passing a compromise budget bill with Republican support, funding all major departments, including Education, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Defense, Labor, and Transportation. But he Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was included in a separate bill, a continuing resolution (CR), that maintained the department’s current spending levels for only two weeks.

Democrats will...