Ximena Bustillo

They also want to change the way that the agency works with local law enforcement on investigations, particularly its own internal oversight.

This is something that Democrats have raised concern about even before the latest two killings of two U.S.

citizens.

You know, when does an immigration officer go on leave?

How is that investigated?

You know, there's kind of like not a lot of internal checks and balances, considering that a lot of the oversight bodies within DHS were completely gutted during the broader effort to reduce the size of the federal workforce overall.

And so Democrats are interested in looking into that.

And then the third thing is mandating clear identification, banning homemade masks on faces and mandating that officers wear body cameras.

It's not even together right now.

I mean, to be clear, at the time we are taping this podcast, you know, the Senate has not even voted on the deal that they have brokered with the president.

So we aren't together right now, to be clear.

But, you know, I think that like let's speak in hypotheticals.

Senate passes it, House passes it, and then clock starts on DHS only.

And they have two weeks to renegotiate DHS.

I mean, they're going to take those two weeks to fully talk through what's going to be included and what's not going to be included.

And of course, if Democrats get some wins, Republicans might want to add some things to that pile as well.

And there is the risk of a legislative slippery slope where this suddenly becomes...

immigration reform, you know, all of a sudden immigration enforcement reform.

However, the other thing that is interesting in the timing here is, as Sam mentioned, right after that second shooting, there was suddenly the scheduling of a slew of congressional oversight hearings.

And two of those hearings, out-of-house homeland and Senate homeland, will take place on the Tuesday and Thursday that the DHS funding bill would expire.