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ANOTHER Shutdown? Congressional Budget, Immigration Talks Stall Over Illegal Immigrant Detention Cap

Emily Zanotti

The federal government may be headed for another shutdown after congressional budget negotiations collapsed Sunday over a Democrat proposal to cap the number of beds available in Customs and Border Protection facilities to house illegal immigrants caught trying to jump the border.

Republican officials told the Washington Examiner that a deal had almost been reached to continue funding the federal government beyond this Friday, when House Democrats proposed placing a cap on the number of captured illegal immigrants who can be housed at any given time at border patrol facilities.

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