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The Daily

Monday, Feb. 27, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

News, Daily News

4.3107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

What happened when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up in a small town that voted overwhelmingly for President Trump, transforming his campaign rhetoric into reality. Guests: Monica Davey, the Chicago bureau chief for The New York Times; Tim Grigsby, a print shop owner in West Frankfort, Ill.; Nicholas Kulish, an investigative reporter for The Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit http://nyti.ms/2lr2eI6.

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From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.

0:33.0

This is The Daily.

0:36.0

Today, federal immigration agents are celebrating the president's new plan to deport unauthorized

0:44.6

immigrants, saying they feel newly respected, empowered, and finally free to do their jobs.

0:51.5

The story of what happened when those federal agents showed up in a small town that had

0:56.6

overwhelmingly voted for President Trump, and his campaign rhetoric became a reality.

1:04.0

It's Monday, February 27th.

1:06.2

Monica Davie, I'm a reporter at The New York Times.

1:15.4

Nice to meet you.

1:18.2

You don't have?

1:19.2

Yeah.

1:20.2

I write for The New York Times, but I work out of Chicago, so I cover the Midwest.

1:26.7

So I'm not here from here.

1:27.7

Everyone keeps asking me, you flew all the way here, what?

1:30.5

So today, we're in West Frankfurt, Illinois, where my colleague Monica Davie, the Chicago

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