"California Democrats have assumed leading roles in their party's counter-offensive to the Trump administration's massive immigration crackdown - seizing on a growing sense, shared by some Republicans, that the campaign has gotten so out of hand that the political winds have shifted heavily in their favor. They stalled Department of Homeland Security funding in the Senate and pushed the impeachment of Secretary Kristi Noem in the House."
"The push comes at an extremely tense moment, as Minneapolis and the nation reel from the fatal weekend shooting of Alex Pretti, and served as an impetus for a spending deal reached late Thursday between Senate Democrats and the White House to avert another partial government shutdown. "This is probably one of the few windows on immigration specifically where Democrats find themselves on offense," said Mike Madrid, a California Republican political consultant. "It is a rare and extraordinary moment.""
"Both of the state's Democratic senators, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, came out in staunch opposition to the latest Homeland Security funding measure in Congress, vowing to block it unless the administration scales back its street operations and reins in masked agents who have killed Americans in multiple shootings, clashed with protestors and provoked communities with aggressive tactics."
California Democrats have mounted a broad counter-offensive against aggressive federal immigration enforcement under President Trump. They stalled Department of Homeland Security funding in the Senate and pressed impeachment moves in the House. They coordinated legal strategies and planned responses to a potential invocation of the Insurrection Act. They traveled to Minneapolis to demand Department of Justice records after two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens. The actions contributed to a temporary funding compromise that buys time for negotiations on new restrictions for immigration agents. Democratic senators have vowed to withhold support until street operations and masked-agent tactics are scaled back.
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