A compromise spending package would solidify the Trump administration’s drastic cuts to oversight components at the Department of Homeland Security at a time when clashes with the public have raised concerns about the policies involved in massively expanded immigration enforcement.
The Homeland Security portion of the measure would reduce congressionally allocated funding from $43 million to $10 million for the DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which Congress included as an internal safeguard when DHS was created in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The spending package also would eliminate $28.6 million in stand-alone funding for the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, which oversaw complaints about immigrant detention and aided those who might have been mistreated.
