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Senate Republicans advance $140bn plan to fund Trump immigration crackdown amid DHS shutdown

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Senate Republicans advance $140bn plan to fund Trump immigration crackdown amid DHS shutdown

Bill clears 50–48 vote to boost ICE and CBP funding as Democrats oppose measure and shutdown continues

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Senate Republicans on Thursday approved a plan to fund Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants for the remainder of his term and pave the way for an end to the ongoing shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The budget resolution adopted along a near party line vote in the early-morning hours sets the stage for Congress to craft legislation allocating as much as $140bn to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), two agencies at the forefront of Trump’s mass deportation agenda that have been without funding since mid-February, when the DHS shutdown began.

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