WASHINGTON — As the partial government shutdown over Department of Homeland Security funding drifts into its first week, congressional Democrats aren’t letting up on their demands for dramatic changes to federal immigration enforcement operations. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., both insisted over the weekend that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is “out of control” and needs to be reined in.

What You Need To Know

  • As the partial government shutdown over Department of Homeland Security funding drifts into its first week, congressional Democrats aren’t letting up on their demands for dramatic changes to federal immigration enforcement operations

  • Following the shooting deaths of two Americans by federal agents last month and violent altercations with protesters in Minneapolis, Democrats issued 10 demands for DHS reform, including that officers display ID badges, take off their masks, wear body cameras, procure judicial warrants before entering private property and be investigated by state and local law enforcement if they are accused of engaging in violent behavior that harms Americans

  • President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., agreed to negotiate with Democrats in good faith, but they say many of the demands are “nonstarters”

  • Trump had tried to stave off a prolonged partial government shutdown when he signed a spending package in early February that funds most of the federal government through Sept. 30 — and the DHS through Feb. 13 at midnight — so lawmakers could negotiate potential changes for the immigration enforcement agency

  • The two sides failed to reach a deal by the deadline before senators and members of the House of Representatives left Washington for a 10-day break

“The American people deserve immigration enforcement that is fair, that is just and that is humane,” Jeffries told CBS “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “We need dramatic change at ICE.”

Following the shooting deaths of two Americans by federal agents last month and violent altercations with protesters in Minneapolis, Democrats issued 10 demands for DHS reform, including that officers display ID badges, take off their masks, wear body cameras, procure judicial warrants before entering private property and be investigated by state and local law enforcement if they are accused of engaging in violent behavior that harms Americans.

“These are common-sense proposals,” Schumer told CNN’s "State of the Union" on Sunday, when asked if Republicans had to agree to all 10 demands.

He said Democrats have three objectives: ending “roving patrols” and racial profiling, instituting a code for use of force and insisting that every ICE officer be identified.

President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., agreed to negotiate with Democrats in good faith, but they say many of the demands are “nonstarters.”

Trump had tried to stave off a prolonged partial government shutdown when he signed a spending package in early February that funds most of the federal government through Sept. 30 — and the DHS through Feb. 13 at midnight — so lawmakers could negotiate potential changes for the immigration enforcement agency.

The two sides failed to reach a deal by the deadline before senators and members of the House of Representatives left Washington for a 10-day break. Lawmakers in both chambers are on notice to return if a deal is struck to end the shutdown.

On Friday, Trump said Democrats have “gone crazy” with their DHS demands, but added: “We’re talking.”

A White House official said last week that the Trump administration will not accept concessions that limit its ability to carry out immigration enforcement.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act provided funding for DHS ICE operations, which are unaffected during the shutdown. Funding for other DHS agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Transportation Security Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard, however, has now lapsed.

Essential workers, including TSA officers who screen passengers and bags at airports, are once again doing their jobs without pay until the shutdown ends.

“Here we go again,” Johnson wrote on X Saturday as the partial shutdown began. “The new Democrat shutdown — this time of the Dept. of Homeland Security — will hit some VERY important programs like FEMA disaster response, TSA security lines, and Coast Guard operations.”

Democrats, however, blame Republicans.

“The administration and Republicans have made a clear decision that they would rather shut down FEMA, shut down the Coast Guard and shut down TSA than enact the type of dramatic reforms necessary so that ICE and other DHS law enforcement agencies are conducting themselves like every other law enforcement professional in the country,” Jeffries said Sunday.