Top Democrats issued more than 40 demands for amnesty-like curbs on ICE operations late on Wednesday, amid negotiations over the 2026 budget for the Department of Homeland Security.

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For example, Democrats want ICE officers to reveal their faces and wear identification tags, even though the Democrats’ street activities have already begun harassing the wives and children of ICE officers.

Democrats want to bar ICE arrests without a judge’s warrant, even where judges are nominated by pro-amnesty Democrats, and even when migrants are fugitives hiding from judges’ orders that they be deported.

Democrats say ICE should not be allowed to arrest migrants in a wide variety of “Sensitive Locations,” so creating many expandable mini-sanctuaries in every town and city.

Democrats want to block ICE from using ordinary policing skills when identifying illegal migrants by barring officers from considering suspects’ locations, work, foreign language, their accents, or “race and ethnicity.” The policing rule would also ensure that each arrest would be tangled in endless legal claims that officers somehow violated the vague rules when they identified suspects.

Democrats want state and local Democrats to get oversight and veto power over the federal government’s “large-scale operations.” The demand does not define a “large-scale operation.”

The document also calls on Trump to fire DHS chief Kristi Noem.

The demands were released by the top two Democrats in Congress, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). “These are common-sense solutions that protect constitutional rights and ensure responsible law enforcement,” the two politicians said in their letter.

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The Democrats’ 43 demands are bundled into ten bullet points, giving the Democrats some room to make trivial concessions.

But the Democrats know they have some allies among the business-first faction of the GOP. Several traditional GOP legislators are eager to block ICE from deporting workforce migrants, even though these migrants lower wages, drive up housing costs, and reduce corporate incentives to invest in Americans’ productivity.

In late 2024, many of those pro-business GOP legislators loudly claimed they had negotiated a supposed border security bill. In reality, those claims were intended to hide the details of the bill, which locked the nation’s border open to mass, wealth-shifting migration. GOP legislators might try a similar bait and switch in the few weeks, for example, by claiming that Democrats had agreed to end sanctuary cities.

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