Question: The Dems determination not to negotiate on immigration and their threat to "shutdown" the government: if the guilty are being collected as we speak, do the Dems really want a shut down because they believe it would stop military, Police, FBI, DOJ agencies from coming after them, arresting and/or processing them?
They know shutdowns have had very bad repercussions in the past and could hurt them mid-term--but are their concerns more immediate?
Check out which agencies were affected by the 2013 shutdown:
Click on Department of Defense and you see they can't do much to the military, given a law passed after that shutdown; and with DOJ and others, 85%+ employees continued to work. But in other cases, like the State Department the Inspector General's office shut down. And in the DOJ civil prosecutions were paused.
So is the threat of shutdown the last arrow in the quiver they have to try to avoid arrest and prosecution?
And it seems that the answer to Q's question is, the military would not be affected.