Stay in line, peasants, or we’ll do what you don’t want us to do: After border bill failure, ICE considers mass releases to close budget gap. And of course, it’s all the fault of the Republicans:

The bipartisan border bill that Republican lawmakers opposed last week would have provided $6 billion in supplemental funding for ICE enforcement operations. The bill’s demise has led ICE officials to begin circulating an internal proposal to save money by releasing thousands of detainees and cutting detention levels from 38,000 beds to 22,000 — the opposite of the enforcement increases Republicans say they want.

Who wants to bet they wouldn’t have released them anyway? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?