Michelle Hackman

But the conditions are a little wishy-washy.

One of them is that they want more state cooperation on immigration enforcement, specifically for state prisons to turn over citizens.

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.

A lot of these visas actually go to companies.

There's sort of a whole business model that's sprung up around the H-1B visa of sort of IT companies who staff almost their entire companies with primarily Indian men on H-1B visas.

And their model is that they do IT a little bit cheaper than a lot of companies' in-house IT offices.

And so what's happened over the last 20 or 30 years is that a lot of companies have actually laid off their internal IT and hired these sort of IT external companies on H-1B visas to come work for them instead.

When Trump takes office, he obviously has all of this anti-immigrant rhetoric.