Homeland Security Shutdown Looms as Lawmakers Clash Over Immigration

Following a weeks-long impasse, the Senate is expected to pass a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The bill, which leaves intact President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, faces Republican opposition and an uncertain fate in the House. With the department’s funding set to expire Friday at midnight, we look at the potential impacts of a shutdown and the politics behind it.

• More: Boehner: House Has ‘Done Its Job’ on Homeland Security Funding (NPR)
• More: Effects of Homeland Security shutdown would be hard to spot (SF Gate)
• More: Bipartisan bill would provide back pay in event of Homeland Security shutdown (Washington Post)