In the days since immigration agents killed US citizen Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday, Democrats have drawn a stark line. Why not vote separately on DHS funding? Any changes to the House-approved package — including voting separately on DHS funding — would require overcoming lengthy procedural hurdles in the Senate. In the run-up to Friday’s shutdown deadline, Democrats in the Senate were bracing for a similar fracture among their party members. To date, only one Democrat — Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania — has committed to voting in favour of the funding package in the wake of Pretti’s killing.