GOP’s Shutdown ‘Compromise’ Turbocharges ICE, Slashes Asylum Admissions

GLACIERS OF ICE

To reopen the government, the Republican position is: more money to lock up detainees, more jail beds for them, and gutting asylum protections for Central American kids.

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Published Jan. 22 2019 2:14PM EST

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The Republican proposal to end the government shutdown would supersize Immigration and Customs Enforcement, giving the controversial agency more money than ever before to lock people up.

The Trump administration and congressional GOP allies are pitching legislation to end the longest federal government shutdown in history as a “compromise” with congressional...