Another US government shutdown looms as ICE furor grows

Six weeks of protests over President Trump’s immigration policies leads Democrats to withhold funding for the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, risking a shutdown of the third-largest cabinet department.

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Ramin Mazaheri
Press TV, Washington DC

In the United States, a lengthy shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security has only just begun. An increasing number of murders by ICE security forces has shocked the nation, and now galvanized the opposition Democratic Party into action.