Members of Congress seek to ‘bring sanity’ to system but decline to give details on plans to reform or abolish agency A group of congressional Democrats on Wednesday pushed for immediate efforts to rein in the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement operation and “bring sanity” to an immigration system that Donald Trump said, after his party’s midterm drubbing, had been “too tough” in certain aspects. Just over a week after the midterm elections in which the US president’s harsh crackdown on...

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The Department of Homeland Security is a redundant, rotten, bloated waste of tax dollars that should be eliminated. It was created mostly based on feels (partcularly those of John Bolton) following 9/11 and it has done essentially nothing to make the "homeland" more "secure".

That said, I will be shocked if there is any serious traction amongst Democrats to that end.

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