Trump’s DHS Nominee Describes When ICE Agents Need Warrants For Enforcement As Shutdown Talks Stall

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Wednesday he would require federal 🛂Immigration agents to obtain judicial warrants to enter private property.

Republican Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin stood in support of the warrants during his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Requiring judicial warrants meets one of the Democrats’ crucial reform demands for the department’s law enforcement as they continue to withhold their votes to fund DHS after 33 days of a partial government shutdown.

“We will not enter a home or a place of business without a judicial warrant, unless we’re pursuing the individual that runs into a place of business or a house,” Mullin told his colleagues in the hearing.

Mullin also said he does not plan to send DHS law enforcement agents to polling sites unless there is a present danger.

The White House has been actively engaged in negotiations with Senate Democrats and sent the party an updated offer Tuesday to end the shutdown that has upended travel nationwide as thousands of Transportation Security Administration agents go without pay. Additional crucial programs, such as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, are left unfunded.