Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters,

and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news

We'll begin with the passage in the House today of a spending bill to fund the government by a vote of 217 to 214

That gives DHS two weeks of funding during which new rules for ICE CBP and DHS will be debated and worked out as Democrats are standing firm

on reigning in ICE with much of the country behind them while Trump is on the defensive.

Joining us is Robert Cutner, the co-founder and co-editor of the American Prospect and the Ida

and Meyer Kirsten Chair at Brandeis University.

He was formerly an assistant to the legendary I.F. Stone, a chief investigator for the

Senate Banking Committee, and for 20 years wrote a column at Businessweek.

His books include Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism and Going Big, FDR's Legacy, Biden's

New Deal, and the struggle to save democracy,

and he has an article at the American prospect we'll discuss no time to compromise on ice.

Then we'll examine further the abuses of ICE and DHS with a spending spree underway to buy

warehouses to hold more than 73,000 immigrants now in detention

and an additional 76,500 by warehousing them to make their lives so miserable they will agree to

waive their rights and be deported in a form of torture which we the taxpayers are funding.

Joining us is Emma Winger, a staff attorney with the American Immigration Council,

where she works to protect the rights of non-citizens through affirmative litigation,

amicus briefs and practice advisories for immigration attorneys.

She has an article at the American Immigration Council,

ISIS secret policy to forcibly enter homes without a judicial warrant threatens all Americans.

Then finally we'll speak with Julia Azari, who is a professor of political science at Marquette

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