‘Long ways to go’ in DHS funding fight even as GOP plans to offer counterproposal

Congress is facing a major time crunch before funding lapses for the entire Department of Homeland Security at the end of this week. And there are no signs that Republicans and Democrats are anywhere close to a deal. Senate Democrats did release a draft legislation over the weekend that includes their wish list of immigration reforms to ICE and Border Patrol in exchange for funding DHS.And party leadership is not budging from those demands. They include targeted operations, no masks for agents, an end to ra ...