ICE agents stand at the scene where ICE agents fatally shot a woman earlier in the day in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 7, 2026. | Christopher Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images

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A series of recent polls hammer home just how unpopular ICE has become: Almost half of voters say they’d like to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and six in 10 say the agency has gone too far.

This week, Senate Democrats are attempting to leverage that disapproval into reform.

I want to be clear on one thing up top: We don’t yet know the nitty-gritty of the Democrats’ policy proposals. During a press conference on Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was asked if any of these issues represented “red lines” for him, and he essentially said that Democrats knew they needed to negotiate still.

That said, the proposals he presented provide an early look at one possible path forward. In today’s edition, we answer the question: What are Democrats demanding of ICE — and what are they leaving off the table?

Historically, ICE made relatively few arrests at homes, worksites, and other public places. Instead, “the vast majority of arrests that ICE used to conduct were really transfers of custody from a state or local authority to the federal........

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