Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. The Trump administration says the immigration

crackdown in Minnesota is coming to an end. Democratic Governor Tim Walls says the state is now

entering a recovery phase. Minnesota Public Radio's Dana Ferguson reports. Governor Walls expressed

pride in Minnesotans efforts to stand up for their immigrant neighbors over the last

two months as thousands of immigration agents surged operations in the state. Now, he says people

are dealing with trauma and economic hardship. This is something that I don't think any state

has ever experienced. And through that entire time, the dignity, the compassion, the love, the care,

and the absolute determination to do what was right, never wavered amongst Minnesotans.

Wall said the state would offer financial help to small business owners affected by the operation,

and he urged federal lawmakers to provide recovery funds to Minnesota.

For NPR News, I'm Dana Ferguson in St. Paul.

A partial shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security appears certain.

Congress is set to leave Washington for a 10-day break while negotiations with the White House

over Democrats' demands for new restrictions on immigration enforcement have stalled. The nation's top

safety investigator says miscommunication between the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S.

military is a longstanding problem. NPR's Joel Rose reports those comments come after the FAA briefly closed the

airspace around El Paso yesterday. The head of the National Transportation Safety Board was asked

about the decision to abruptly close and then reopen the airspace around El Paso amid tensions

between the FAA and the Pentagon over the use of an experimental counter-drone laser technology.

NTSB chair Jennifer Homandy said she didn't know enough to comment on El Paso, but that similar

tensions are not new.

There has been miscommunication or no communication between at least the Army and FAA for years.

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