Senate passes $70 billion immigration bill to fund ICE following efforts to stop Trump’s $1.7 billion settlement fund (opens in new tab)

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The Senate passed legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies early Friday, after weeks of delays and fierce backlash to an unrelated $1.776 billion settlement fund that threatened to derail the bill. Senators voted 52-47 to pass the $70 billion legislation to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for the next three years, through the […]

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