Immigration Officials to Testify Before Senate Homeland Security Panel

The heads of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are set to appear before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Thursday. The hearing comes two days after the officials repeatedly declined to answer questions from House members about the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis last month.

The testimony arrives amid a Senate stalemate over new restrictions that would curb immigration operations and a growing threat of a shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security. Democrats are demanding limits on federal immigration agents as a condition of funding the department, while many Republicans have rejected those proposals as overly burdensome to the administration’s deportation crackdown.

Senate Democrats are negotiating with the White House, but members of both parties expressed doubt that an agreement can be reached in time to avoid a lapse after midnight on Friday.

United States, Minneapolis

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