Why Democrats have little leverage to reform ICE

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  What happens when our political party becomes the prism through which we see every other aspect of our identities?

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  What we 're living through, I think, is really the two parties taking opposite sides on whether we want to keep

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  making this type of social progress or whether we want to go back in time.

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  Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

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  I'm Miles Parks.

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  I cover voting.

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  I'm Sam Greenglass.

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  I cover Congress.

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  And I'm Jimena Bustillo, and I cover immigration.

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  And it 's Friday, so let 's catch up on some of the political news we have n't already talked about on the pod,

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  starting with an ongoing fight over funding at the Department of Homeland Security.

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  Sam, this is an agency that has been without funding for more than 60 days.

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  Days now?

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  Can you give us the latest?

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  Yeah, I feel like a lot of people maybe have forgotten that this agency is still

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  shut down and that this fight is ongoing, and it very much is.

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  So there was an agreement in the Senate, at least,

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  to fund all of DHS except for immigration enforcement agencies, ICE and Border Patrol.

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  This passed the Senate, but it has been sitting in the House for the last three weeks amid pushback

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