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Senate GOP kicks off $70 billion plan to end-run Democrats on immigration enforcement

By David Sivak
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Senate Republicans took another step Tuesday toward reopening the Department of Homeland Security, voting to debate a blueprint that would fund three years of immigration enforcement and help put to rest a monthslong dispute with the Democrats.

In a matter of hours, Republicans released and then brought to the floor a plan that would provide up to $70 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its sister agency, Customs and Border Protection.

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