The Hillby Tara Suter09/07/25Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) said Sunday the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fled a Navy base near Chicago during a visit from Democrats.Trump border czar Tom Homan confirmed late last month that the Trump administration was discussing using Naval Station Great Lakes, which is near Chicago, to back up immigration detention efforts.Duckworth said she, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin (D) and Illinois Rep. Brad Schneider (D) had asked the DHS about what it was doing at the Naval Station Great Lakes. Initially, it told the lawmakers they could not visit the base, Duckworth said.“Sen. Durbin, myself, Senator — Congressman Schneider sent a request into DHS to ask them to explain what exactly are you going to be doing at Great Lakes, and can we come look at your facility so we have a better understanding of what your operations are? And they replied, ‘No, you can’t,’ and, in fact, gave their staff the day off on the day that we went to go look at the facilities, and locked the doors and left the base,” Duckworth told CBS’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation,” referencing Naval Station Great Lakes.“Basically, they fled the base,” she added.
Congress has the Constitutional duty for oversight. As usual Trump & Company ignores the Constitution and behaves like a dictator! Check and Balances we all learned in K-12, the the Congressional, the Judicial, and Executive designed to create a system of checks and balances where no single branch holds too much power. However, when you have a spineless Congress that are more worried about reelections that the Constitution you end up with a bootlicking Congress that bows down to Trump wishes.
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