We Deserve to Know What is Happening
6/7/202613 min
June 6, 2026
Senate Republicans passed a measure providing additional funding to ICE and CBP, without any of the reforms Democrats had demanded, ICE and CBP will be funded through the end of Trump’s term no matter the outcome of the midterm elections, There has been no public accounting of how the funds for ICE and CBP are being spent, Democratic amendments caused an 18 hour debate that forced Republicans to vote against measures that are popular, making their stands clear, A whistleblower says that DOGE planned to make immigrants self deport by declaring 2.7 million of them dead, The number of deaths of immigrants in detention is rising, Sen Andy Kim of New Jersey is keeping attention on what is happening at Delaney Hall detention center, but ICE is impeding oversight, Secretary of Defense Hegseth was in France for the anniversary of D-Day, where he perverted the commemoration in a speech which advanced the ideas on which fascism was based, We remember Winston Churchill, who promised that those who care about freedom and self determination would never stop fighting the Nazis.
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[outro music] June 6th, 2026. In the wee hours of Friday morning, Senate Republicans passed a measure to provide about seventy billion dollars in additional funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, the parent agency for Border Patrol. They did so without meeting any of the demands Democrats had made to reform ICE and Border Patrol in the wake of the violent sweeps that led to the deaths of US citizens Rene Good and Alex Preddy. While Republicans tried to insist that Democrats who demanded reforms were starving immigration enforcement, in fact, the budget reconciliation measure the Republicans passed in July of last year, the one they call the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or OBBBA, provided an astonishing one hundred and ninety-one billion dollars to fund the Department of Homeland Security, with about seventy-five billion for ICE and sixty-five billion for CBP. According to Dominic Lett of the libertarian Cato Institute, those numbers were seven times ICE's previous annual budget and four times the typical annual budget of CBP and were designed to last through September thirtieth, twenty