Democrats say they will not support a spending bill to keep the Homeland Security Department running without new restrictions on federal agents.

Congress on Tuesday afternoon gave final approval to an agreement that funds multiple US government agencies through September, ending a short partial shutdown — even as an impasse over immigration continues.

Congress and its leaders, both Republicans and Democrats, keep kicking the can down the road. Their inaction plays into Trump’s hands.

Donald Trump did not invent the machinery now driving mass detention and unchecked arrests. That is why the crisis unfolding today will not automatically end when Trump leaves office.

Forty years ago, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.It was the last time our legislature passed a comprehensive immigration reform, and it helps explain how immigration has become a festering wound that will not heal.

Congress is barreling toward a prolonged shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security as Democrats dig in on demands to restrain President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda that Republicans say are nonstarters.

For senators, Wednesday was the first full day back in Washington after the killing of Alex Pretti. It comes ahead of their Friday deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security and some of the government’s other large agencies.

The shooting deaths of two American citizens at the hands of federal law enforcement in Minneapolis have upended the politics of the Trump administration’s deportation agenda.

Restoring the rule of law and Constitutional government on immigration—something wrecked by Trump's rule-by-decree with federal agents—is vastly more important