Democrats To “Double Down” On ICE Oversight Visits

Axios reports:

In their fury over the Trump administration’s charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), House Democrats are planning to ramp up oversight visits to ICE facilities, Axios has learned. The prosecution effort has, to a shocking degree, galvanized Democrats on an issue that perennially divides them — with even the party’s centrist border hawks railing against it.

Members are getting increasingly angry and frustrated at the overreach, and now one of our members has been singled out for intimidation,” said House Administration Committee ranking member Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.). Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio), a moderate, told Axios: “Democrats should be all over oversight. … We have to double down. We have to do more.”

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