Tamara Keith

sending in large numbers of ICE and Border Patrol, making a big show of doing immigration enforcement.

We've seen Portland, Oregon, Chicago, for example.

What do you think makes Minneapolis different?

This has been going on now for a long time in a very visible way.

Yeah.

And I will say that last week, the White House sent out a memo to federal agencies telling them that they needed to identify all federal spending in so-called sanctuary cities and sanctuary states with the idea President Trump has pledged that he's going to withdraw all federal funding from states that don't cooperate, as he has seen it.

Is there a blurring of lines between immigration enforcement and other political goals in this state?

Domenico, obviously, this has been a very messy situation recently.

But do you have any sense of whether the administration's response is going to be persuasive to voters?

And I promise we will talk about this more in a future podcast.

But Clay and Domenico, we have a government funding deadline in just a few days here at the federal level.

And all of a sudden, what's happening in Minnesota is getting wrapped up in that funding legislation that in theory could have avoided a government shutdown.

But now you have Democrats saying they don't think that they can support funding for these kinds of actions.

Right.

And when you see the president ever so slightly trying to distance himself from the actions of his own administration, you know where the politics are.

All right.

We're going to leave it there for today.

Thanks for being here again, Clay.

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I'm Tamara Keith.