Virginia Democrats dig in on DHS funding line despite ISIS-linked shooting at ODU, illegal immigrant murder

Virginia's Democratic senators aren't budging from their position against funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) without reforms despite a deadly shooting involving a suspect with links to ISIS.

That became a reality Thursday when the FBI announced it was investigating a shooting at Old Dominion University that left one person dead and two others wounded as an act of terrorism after identifying the alleged shooter as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former member of the Army National Guard who was convicted of supporting ISIS.

Kaine argued that Senate Democrats have repeatedly tried to reopen chunks of the agency, either through a bill that carved out funding for ICE and CBP or through standalone funding bills that Republicans have blocked.

"Senate Democrats have repeatedly moved to fund - and Senate Republicans have repeatedly blocked - TSA, CISA, the Coast Guard and other entities within DHS that help keep us safe," Kaine said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

"ICE had this guy repeatedly and let him go," Kaine said. "And, so, should counties do more? Yeah, but what about ICE? Why would ICE, beginning in, like, 2017, 2018 - and that was during Trump's presidency - not take cases like this seriously?"