From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobarrow. This is the Daily.

Good morning. I'm Tom Homer, and the border czar for President Trump. I'm here on behalf of the president, along with U.S. commissioners.

A few days ago, the president's borders are travel to Minneapolis with a simple message.

I didn't ask him to be immigration officers.

I'm asking them to be cops working with cops to help to stay criminal aliens off the street.

The faster local officials there cooperate with federal immigration agents,

the faster those agents will leave.

This is common sense cooperation that allows to draw down on the number of people you have here.

Yes, I said it, draw down the number of people here.

Today, the history of why that kind of cooperation is so difficult to pull off and potentially even illegal.

I turn to two of my colleagues, Hamid Ali Aziz, and Ernesto Lundano, to explain.

... to explain.

It's Monday.

February 2. Hamid, I wonder what you were thinking about. second.

Hamid, I wonder what you were thinking as a long-time immigration reporter.

When you heard Tom Homan deliver the message that he did to officials in Minneapolis,

essentially offering that drawdown of federal agents if local officials cooperated and gave access.

I was thinking Tom Homan was uniquely fit to carry this message for the Trump administration.

You know, he is somebody who has seen the entire evolution of cooperation between local law enforcement in liberal cities with ICE, with the federal government.

He's really someone who was there at a time when this was just normal practice at ICE 15 years ago to work closely

with local law enforcement. And he's been there as it's faded away, as it's become a political

issue and more and more local governments find it unacceptable to work alongside ICE.

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