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Collins says Democrats want ICE reforms they rejected 89%
By Burgess Everett81%
7/15/2026, 8:57:43 PM
Topics: US Politics, Immigration Policy
BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 46% saturation with 97 hits. Analysis detected 740 faulty-reasoning hits from 211 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 82.6% and a BS Rank of 89% (2,036 of 17,596 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 88.40% of the article peer group.
Maine Democratic Gov.
Janet Mills wrote to the state’s congressional delegation on Wednesday, pushing for ICE “to be fundamentally reformed,” after federal agents shot and killed a man in Biddeford on Monday.
Sen.
Susan Collins, R-Maine, told Semafor the letter was “strange” because the White House already offered those reforms to Democrats in talks to end the shutdown earlier this year.
“The irony is that it is the Democrats who walked away from additional safeguards,” Collins said, including $100 million more for body cameras, requirements for visible identification numbers for officers, and bans on ICE action in sensitive locations.
“It’s unfortunate that they wouldn’t take yes for an answer.
But that was the Democrats’ choice.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called Collins’s comments “shameless” on Thursday morning and said “these killings could have been prevented” if Democratic proposals had been implemented.
“Yesterday, Senator Collins of Maine tried pinning the blame on Democrats even though she voted against an amendment requiring ICE to wear body cameras just last month,” Schumer said.
What’s more, President Donald Trump overturned the department’s decision to pause ICE traffic stops just 24 hours after an internal memo advised agents of the change, according to a White House official.
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