Ximena Bustillo

It suggested Congress is inching closer to another stopgap bill to fund the department in absence of a deeper agreement.

Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.

Democrats and Republicans in the Senate agreed on a two-week extension for the funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

The hope is that it will allow for enough time to negotiate immigration enforcement reforms after federal agents killed two Americans in Minneapolis this month.

The two-week window is for negotiating just that part.

The rest of the government, including the Departments of Defense and Health and Human Services and other agencies, will get funding through September.

So there's kind of three buckets of asks that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has outlined.

The first has to do with kind of how they're going out into communities and the ways that they're conducting arrests, particularly with warrants.

So there's two types of warrants, administrative and judicial.

Judicial have to be signed by a judge.

Administrative are basically the agency giving itself permission to enter your home.

And so Democrats want to get rid of that.

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.