Congressional Immigration Fights

Rep. Angie Craig, a Minnesota Democrat, likened recent ICE raids to actions in 1930s Germany and said cutting ICE funding or even a shutdown were options, asserting that "nothing should be off the table" to stop the operations. Other Democrats, including Sen. Ruben Gallego — who told CNN ICE should be "totally torn down" and rebuilt to focus on criminals rather than aggressive tactics — have echoed calls for major changes, prompting the White House to accuse Gallego of pandering to the "radical left" and defend ICE as removing "rapists, murderers, and other criminals."

Rep. Ritchie Torres, D‑N.Y., says he will introduce the Quick Recognition Act next week to require Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection officers to wear uniforms bearing QR codes that, when scanned, would display the officer’s name, badge number and employing agency. Torres argues the change is urgently needed to "unmask ICE not only physically but digitally" and calls the agency a "systemically corrupt institution," vowing to oppose any future appropriation that funds ICE by more than $1. The Trump White House is denouncing the proposal, with spokeswoman Abigail Jackson telling Fox News it would spur a "widescale doxxing campaign" and encourage protesters to interfere with operations, and citing DHS claims of a 1,300% increase in assaults on ICE officers that it blames on Democratic "smears." The article notes related moves by Rep. Shri Thanedar, D‑Mich., who has introduced a bill to abolish ICE after the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, underscoring how that incident and the administration’s Minnesota raids are driving more aggressive Democratic efforts to constrain or dismantle immigration enforcement. Critics on the right are already framing Torres’ QR‑code plan as a direct threat to officer safety, while supporters on the left see it as a basic transparency measure in an era of masked, unbadged federal agents confronting protesters.