WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 -- Democrats' election victory could expose the Trump administration's immigration operations to tougher congressional scrutiny, but it does not automatically withdraw money already provided to enforcement agencies, immigration attorney Elizaveta Kryukova said in comments reported November 9.

The administration has signaled that enforcement will continue. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin wrote, "Deportations will continue," in a November 4 post, the day after the congressional elections. His statement sets out the department's position, not a response to Kryukova's subsequent assessment.

The coming confrontation involves two different powers: investigating how immigration agencies operate and changing the...