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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stated that Democrats are shutting down the Department of Homeland Security because Republicans refuse to agree to reforms prohibiting ICE from sensitive locations, including polling sites.He explained: “It’s the reason why we are in a DHS shutdown right now, because Republicans have refused to agree to the type of bold transformative meaningful and dramatic reforms we are demanding… Is to get ICE out of sensitive locations And we’ve defined that as schools, houses of worship Hospitals and polling sites… We want an explicit prohibition That ice can go nowhere near any polling site in the United States It’s one our demands. We’re not going bend on it.”