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Senate GOP launches all-night vote-a-rama to fund ICE, Border Patrol through end of Trump’s term
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Senate Republicans are inching closer to funding federal immigration operations for years to come, but first they have to plow through a marathon of votes Democrats plan to weaponize against them.
The Senate officially launched a «vote-a-rama» for Republicans’ budget resolution, the blueprint guiding the GOP’s push to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s presidency.
But, first, lawmakers must grind through amendment after amendment from Senate Democrats — and some Republicans — before voting to adopt the resolution.
SENATE GOP BLOCKS FIFTH DEM BID TO END TRUMP’S IRAN WAR AS DIVISIONS GROW
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Republican senators held a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 24, 2026, discussing their latest offer to Democrats to reopen the Department of Homeland Security funding. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Some Republicans unhappy with the limited scope of the GOP’s latest budget reconciliation push have vowed to force votes on amendments addressing economic issues and a provision set to expire in July that prohibits Medicaid funding from going to abortion providers.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said he would not block amendments from his own party from reaching the floor.
«We’ll see what our colleagues come up with, but we’re talking to them and their offices about strategy and the best way to move forward in order to ultimately succeed — and that is to get it passed in both houses and signed [into law],» Thune said.
SENATE REPUBLICANS UNVEIL IMMIGRATION FUNDING PLAN WITH $140 BILLION PRICE TAG AS DIVISIONS SIMMER
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., during a news conference after the weekly Senate Democrat policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 17, 2026. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his caucus intend to use the opportunity to attack Republicans on several issues, including the war in Iran, affordability and other concerns tied to Trump’s agenda.
Schumer said Democrats plan to «show the contrast» between the parties over Republicans’ reconciliation plans, which they intend to use to inject tens of billions of dollars into ICE and Border Patrol over the next 3½ years.
«We are for reducing costs for the American people — whether it’s housing, healthcare, electric bills, groceries or childcare,» Schumer said Wednesday. «And they are funding a rogue police force that is not even popular with the American people. And we’re going to keep at it.»
REPUBLICANS EYE ENDING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS FOREVER OVER FEARS DEMS WILL DO IT AGAIN
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., April 13, 2026. (Salwan Georges/Bloomberg)
Senate Democrats have teed up several amendments, including proposals aimed at forcing rebates for small businesses affected by Trump’s tariffs, addressing rising grocery costs and renewing their push to extend the long-expired Obamacare enhanced premium tax credits, a fight from last year that led to the longest full government shutdown in history.
Republicans turned to reconciliation after months of avoiding the maneuver after congressional Democrats refused to fund ICE and Customs and Border Protection without stricter immigration enforcement reforms, including warrant requirements and rules requiring agents to remove their masks.
Senate Republicans unveiled their budget resolution Tuesday in a bid to meet Trump’s June 1 deadline to have the full package on his desk.
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The measure directs the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to each craft legislation providing $70 billion in funding for the agencies. Republicans are ultimately eyeing up to $80 billion for immigration enforcement.
Once the vote-a-rama ends and the budget resolution is adopted, it will head to the House. After the House adopts it, Congress will begin the process of crafting a reconciliation package without Democratic input.
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En Una filosofía de la risa, Bernat Castany Prado plantea una defensa del humor como herramienta para vivir con la incertidumbre, cuestionar dogmas y aliviar una condición humana que, según la tradición que recorre el ensayo, está hecha a la vez de sufrimiento y risa.
El libro se presenta como una continuación de Una filosofía del miedo, donde el autor ya había explorado, a través de pensadores como Epicuro, Spinoza y Nietzsche, una vía filosófica para contener la angustia. En esta nueva entrega, la risa ocupa ese lugar y funciona como otro repertorio para enfrentar el exceso de futuro y la inquietud.
La idea central es nítida: la comicidad no aparece solo como entretenimiento, sino como una forma de conocimiento. Castany Prado sitúa la ironía y la risa en el centro de la experiencia humana, tanto en una fiesta como en un funeral, y las entiende como instrumentos para relativizar certezas y someter a examen las convicciones propias.
El itinerario intelectual del libro va de Platón a Bergson y suma nombres como Sócrates, Montaigne, Cervantes, Borges, Sófocles y Rilke. A través de esa tradición filosófica y literaria, el autor plantea que la ironía y la comicidad han sido concebidas como una vía para conocer y como una forma de vida menos sometida al dogma.
Ese recorrido también sostiene una crítica a la solemnidad moral y religiosa. La apuesta del ensayo consiste en apartarse de los escrúpulos neuróticos, de los sermones incapaces de admitir la duda y de toda forma de decoro que impida encontrar una manera más sana de vivir y de reír.
En ese marco, el libro recupera la idea de aprender a amar las preguntas cuando no es posible resolver todo lo que inquieta. La referencia a Rilke refuerza esa defensa de la duda, no como carencia, sino como una disposición compatible con una vida menos rígida.
Uno de los argumentos más definidos del ensayo es que el humor opera como crítica y como antídoto frente a fanatismos y dogmatismos. Castany Prado lo vincula con prejuicios irracionales y con convicciones frágiles que, al no tolerar examen, reaccionan con rigidez ante cualquier fisura.
El libro conecta esa función con un presente marcado por la polarización y la indignación. En ese contexto, la risa aparece como una práctica liberadora, aunque el autor evita tanto una visión ingenua como una lectura trascendente de la comicidad.
Esa cautela se traduce en una idea concreta: para conservar el equilibrio emocional, la empatía no siempre basta y a veces debe deformarse en “em-pa-tu-tía”. La fórmula resume el tono del ensayo, que combina erudición filosófica con registros cotidianos y un uso deliberado del juego verbal.
El texto también prevé objeciones. Entre las posibles críticas menciona la acusación de idealizar el poder emancipador del humor, atribuirle una capacidad transformadora excesiva, dispersarse en una acumulación de referencias o limitarse casi por completo a la tradición occidental sin incorporar perspectivas de otras culturas.
Frente a esos reparos, la defensa del autor se apoya en su formación y en el modo en que administra su erudición. Castany Prado es licenciado en Filosofía y Filología Hispánica, se doctoró con una tesis sobre Borges y tiene estudios de música, un perfil que el libro traduce en una escritura de pulso narrativo sostenido y atención al ritmo de la lengua.
La apuesta final del ensayo enlaza el sapere aude kantiano con una exigencia paralela: el ridere aude de la ironía. Desde esa perspectiva, la filosofía de la risa no rebaja la importancia de sus temas, sino que convierte lo ligero en un asunto de primer orden para desmontar falsedades ajenas y propias.
La conclusión práctica del libro apunta a una corrección de la tendencia humana a dramatizar la vida y a victimizarse. Cuando la verdad y la identidad no terminan de fijarse, la búsqueda puede continuar, pero el ensayo propone hacerlo como los filósofos cínicos: riendo.
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Trump DOJ unleashes largest denaturalization effort in department history — and says it’s ‘only the beginning’
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FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Justice is moving to revoke the citizenship of more than two dozen individuals who the DOJ said committed crimes ranging from attempted murder to child sexual abuse to identity fraud, marking its largest citizenship revocation surge on record, Fox News Digital learned Monday.
«U.S. citizenship is one of our nation’s highest privileges, and it must be obtained lawfully and honestly,» Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News Digital on Monday.
«The complaints announced today allege that these individuals secured naturalization through fraud, concealment, or other unlawful conduct— including by concealing violent crimes, sexual offenses against children, fraudulent identities, and other disqualifying facts,» said Blanche.
The complaints against the 25 individuals, filed between July 20 and Aug. 3, involve naturalized U.S. citizens who are natives of 17 countries: Pakistan, Moldova, India, Mexico, Colombia, Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Jamaica, Taiwan, Honduras, Cameroon, Jordan, Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti and Sweden, Fox News Digital learned. The DOJ told Fox News Digital later Monday that it had added another case, raising the number of people facing denaturalization from 24 to 25.
DOJ MOVES TO STRIP CITIZENSHIP FROM 17 PEOPLE ACCUSED OF HIDING DISTURBING CRIMES
Citizenship and Immigration Services officers detained a man believed to be committing immigration fraud. (USCIS)
«Today’s filings represent the largest coordinated denaturalization effort in Department history, but they are only the beginning. The Justice Department will continue to use every tool available to protect the integrity of the naturalization process and the safety of the American people,» Blanche added.
The cases bring the department’s total denaturalization filings to 88 since Jan. 20, 2025, as the Trump administration ramps up efforts to strip citizenship from individuals it says obtained it unlawfully.
The cases span a wide range of alleged conduct that the Justice Department says should have disqualified the individuals from obtaining or keeping U.S. citizenship.
The complaints involve allegations including attempted murder, child sexual abuse, domestic violence, marriage fraud, identity fraud, passport fraud, bank and credit card fraud, and practicing medicine without a license, among other offenses.
«Today marks the largest denaturalization surge in recorded history,» said Justice Department’s Civil Division Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate told Fox News Digital.
TRUMP PUTS ASYLUM LAWYERS ‘ON NOTICE’ WITH NEW FRONT IN WAR ON FRAUD
Migrants wait in line to turn themselves in for processing to U.S. Customs and Border Protection border patrol agents near the Paso del Norte Port of Entry after crossing the US-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, on May 9, 2023. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
«Every one of these individuals committed crimes incompatible with U.S. citizenship. We are moving at record speed to denaturalize those who sought to deceive the federal government and abuse the naturalization process.»
In one case, the department seeks to denaturalize a man in North Carolina convicted of attempted first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon after obtaining citizenship through military service but allegedly failing to meet the required period of honorable service.
ICE NABS ILLEGAL ALIENS CONVICTED OF CHILD SEX CRIMES AND METH TRAFFICKING IN NATIONWIDE ENFORCEMENT SWEEP
U.S. President Donald Trump walks to a waiting Air Force One at the Hagerstown Regional Airport on July 31, 2026, in Hagerstown, Maryland. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Prosecutors also allege a naturalized citizen in South Carolina concealed a violent assault in which he beat and choked his wife, later pleading guilty to assault and battery after the attack left her hospitalized.
In June, DOJ moved to revoke 17 individuals from 13 different countries over allegations of child sexual abuse, narcotics trafficking and large-scale financial fraud.
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