Minnesota officials, heads of immigration agencies to testify at Senate hearing

The committee chairman, GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, told "CBS Mornings" connected Wednesday that determination has been "a nonaccomplishment of nationalist spot successful ICE and their officials aft seeing what's been going connected successful Minneapolis," portion citing "fault connected some sides."

Outlining what helium hopes to perceive from witnesses, Paul said, "We privation to perceive some sides connected this."

"But we're besides going to inquire the ICE heads and those astatine DHS, we're going to inquire them, 'What is the due usage of force?'" Paul said. "'When should agents beryllium drafting their guns? When should they beryllium firing their guns?' And if these heads of these agencies garbage to reply these questions, it's going to beryllium a existent problem."

Paul said: "When a mistake of this magnitude happens, the archetypal happening should beryllium an apology and it should beryllium regret, it should beryllium sadness and it should be, 'We are going to bash better, and this is the policy, and we're going to marque definite it's enforced.'" He credited Tom Homan with "doing better." Homan is the White House borderline czar who has taken implicit operations successful Minnesota.

The Kentucky Republican said the nationalist needs to "know however to behave, too."

"Do you person a accidental of being changeable if you instrumentality a limb and person a due licence for a limb to a rally?" Paul said. "Could you beryllium changeable if you're yelling astatine ICE officers? Could you beryllium changeable if you're gesticulating?"

He said the heads of the migration enforcement agencies indispensable beryllium acceptable to reply the questions, noting that their grounds astatine the House proceeding earlier this week was "mostly side-stepping."

Lawmakers stay astatine a stalemate implicit however to money the Department of Homeland Security arsenic Democrats question reforms to rein successful ICE successful the aftermath of the Minnesota migration crackdown. 

Funding for the department, which oversees ICE and CBP on with agencies similar FEMA, TSA and the Coast Guard, is acceptable to expire astatine 12 a.m. connected Saturday unless lawmakers tin travel to an agreement. Democrats person pledged to reason a short-term measurement to support DHS funded. 

Without enactment by Congress, backing would lapse for the agencies and a partial shutdown could statesman adjacent week. But migration enforcement would continue, since ICE and CBP received an influx of backing successful the One Big Beautiful Bill Act past year. 

The leaders of the migration enforcement agencies defended the Trump administration's wide deportation campaign astatine Tuesday's proceeding earlier the House Homeland Security Committee. 

Lyons and Scott, the leaders of ICE and CBP, fielded astir each of the questions. Their agents person been astatine the halfway of the scrutiny surrounding the Minneapolis crackdown pursuing the deadly shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti past month. The officials mostly declined to remark connected the shootings, citing the ongoing investigations into their deaths.

GOP lawmakers wide supported the leaders, though immoderate sought commitments from them going forward. Democratic lawmakers pressed the leaders connected their agencies, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's handling of the shootings and the enforcement run much broadly.

Sen. Rand Paul says "there's a nonaccomplishment of nationalist trust" successful ICE amid scrutiny implicit crackdowns

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