The Schumer shutdown drags on.

[Irie]

Party before country.

[PirateLT]

They can fund most of DHS except ICE until they come to a resolution.  

On Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 9:40:01 AM UTC-6 Irie wrote:

Party before country.

[Irie]

Ice is ALREADY funded....what are you talking about?

[PirateLT]

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5774045-kaine-ice-cbp-funding/

[I-think4me]

Party before country.

Right, because preventing DHS from trampling the rights of US citizens under the guise of keeping us safe is not  serving the interest of  this country. 

[Irie]

How will keeping them from wearing masks protect your rights?

As to body cams, another reported dim hangup:

Key Details on ICE Body Cameras (Per 2026 Reports):

Immediate Deployment: All ICE and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers operating in Minneapolis were mandated to wear body-worn cameras.

Nationwide Expansion: As funding becomes available, the program is scheduled to expand nationwide.

Funding and Support: $20 million was allocated in the spending bill to support this initiative.

[I-think4me]

People who can be identified and held accountable for rogue behavior tend to act less thuggish.  The demands are more than mask and body cams.

1. Targeted Enforcement – DHS officers cannot enter private property without a judicial warrant. End indiscriminate arrests and improve warrant procedures and standards. Require verification that a person is not a U.S. citizen before holding them in immigration detention.
2. No Masks – Prohibit ICE and immigration enforcement agents from wearing face coverings.
3. Require ID – Require DHS officers conducting immigration enforcement to display their agency, unique ID number and last name. Require them to verbalize their ID number and last name if asked.
4. Protect Sensitive Locations – Prohibit funds from being used to conduct enforcement near sensitive locations, including medical facilities, schools, child-care facilities, churches, polling places, courts, etc.
5. Stop Racial Profiling – Prohibit DHS officers from conducting stops, questioning and searches based on an individual’s presence at certain locations, their job, their spoken language and accent or their race and ethnicity.
6. Uphold Use of Force Standards – Place into law a reasonable use of force policy, expand training and require certification of officers. In the case of an incident, the officer must be removed from the field until an investigation is conducted.
7. Ensure State and Local Coordination and Oversight – Preserve the ability of State and local jurisdictions to investigate and prosecute potential crimes and use of excessive force incidents. Require that evidence is preserved and shared with jurisdictions. Require the consent of States and localities to conduct large-scale operations outside of targeted immigration enforcement.
8. Build Safeguards into the System – Make clear that all buildings where people are detained must abide by the same basic detention standards that require immediate access to a person’s attorney to prevent citizen arrests or detention. Allow states to sue DHS for violations of all requirements. Prohibit limitations on Member visits to ICE facilities regardless of how those facilities are funded.
9. Body Cameras for Accountability, Not Tracking – Require use of body-worn cameras when interacting with the public and mandate requirements for the storage and access of footage. Prohibit tracking, creating or maintaining databases of individuals participating in First Amendment activities.
10. No Paramilitary Police – Regulate and standardize the type of uniforms and equipment DHS officers carry during enforcement operations to bring them in line with civil enforcement.

[BEZARK]

Research done a fair while ago on the relationship between police uniforms and and degree of tension or problem  between officer and citizen showed blue, I think light blue, to be best.  Black I think was worst.