By Ted Hesson
WASHINGTON, Feb 15 (Reuters) – White House border czar Tom Homan on Sunday brushed off Democratic demands to reform ICE amid mounting backlash over the agency’s tactics and a partisan deadlock over homeland security funding.
Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers doubled down on their calls for changes to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, even as Republicans accused them of grandstanding by refusing to back a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security.
(Reporting by Ted Hesson in Washington; Additional reporting by Abigail Summerville in New York and Ryan P. Jones in Toronto; Editing by Sergio Non and Matthew Lewis)
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