WASHINGTON, April 23 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement after Senate Republicans passed their budget resolution, which will allow them to provide up to $140 billion for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP):
"In the middle of the night, Senate Republicans voted to give ICE-an agency that has carried out unspeakable cruelty against children, immigrant families, and even American citizens-billions of dollars to continue the President's mass deportation campaign.
"At a time when Americans ...