Michelle Hackman
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first heard Nov 2025
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WSJ What’s News · White House May Reduce Federal Immigration Agents in Minnesota · 26 Jan 2026
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Immigrants in the country illegally who are in their jails and prisons serving criminal sentences.
The Minnesota government has actually already been doing that.
And so that's one of those things where you can sort of call an easy win.
It looks to me as though the administration is looking for a way to de-escalate the situation, but not look like it's a total retreat with your tail between your legs.
It points, again, strongly in the direction of the idea that this administration is looking to de-escalate.
Tom Homan has long been an advocate for focusing ICE primarily on going after criminals.
And that has been an idea that hasn't been so popular inside the administration.
The first shooting of Rene Good had an almost, you know, rally around the flag effect.
That was the sentiment inside the administration, that they were doing nothing wrong.
The word that I heard administration officials use was righteous.
Administration officials have been passing around polling showing that their operation is really unpopular with voters and not just with Democrats.
And so all of that was freaking people out and having them look for an off ramp.
Thank you.
So ICE was founded in 2003.
It existed in another form before then, but after 9-11, the government really revamped its sort of law enforcement and particularly its law enforcement around foreigners and allowing foreigners into the country.
And separated out this agency to really step up deportations and also investigating foreigners who were using the immigration process to commit crimes.
ICE's mandate is really specifically to go find people in the country illegally, arrest them, and get them out of the country.
So it's interesting because they use a lot of the same law enforcement tactics as most other law enforcement agencies, but their mandate is civil.
It's not criminal.
If you're here in the country illegally, that technically is not a crime.
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