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So we're going to see the heads of Border Protection, as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and USCIS, the Citizenship and Immigration Service that handles legal migration processes.
be brought for oversight hearings in the House and Senate back to back in about two weeks.
And then Noem herself was called into Senate judiciary.
And granted, that hearing won't be for another five weeks.
But, you know, it is notable that there is a push for oversight coming from Republicans.
You know, Republicans lead these committees right now.
Democrats have said that they've been requesting
these leaders to come before them.
They have no reason to do that for a Democrat request, but they do if it's the chair of an oversight committee that is a Republican that has the power.
And so this increased pressure and probably some of the threats of a potential government shutdown at the end of the week is really showing Republicans further their split on immigration and use their congressional oversight power.
There is no reason to believe that this is a policy shift.
You know, everyone still has, you know, their commanding jobs for now.
Secretary Noem is still Secretary of Homeland Security.
Stephen Miller, who is the deputy chief of staff and is
been known to be the one orchestrating and leading a lot of the policy here, is still deputy chief of staff Tom Holman, White House border czar.
He's now on the ground in Minneapolis as well, clearly leading some of the charge here.
There is still going to be a mass deportation agenda.
You know, that has not changed.
On the ground, court records show that there are 3,000 immigration complaints
officers in Minneapolis.