The Daily Can Trump Force Blue Cities to Cooperate With ICE?
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Feb 2, 2026 
Ernesto Londoño, a Minnesota-based New York Times reporter who covers local developments, and Hamed Aleaziz, a Times reporter on DHS and immigration policy, discuss federal pressure on Minneapolis and Hennepin County. They walk through ICE’s historical reliance on jails, shifts toward sanctuary policies, political and legal tensions around sheriff decisions, and whether limited cooperation can ease confrontations.
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Jails Once Fueled Fast Deportations
- Tom Homan embodies the older jail-centered ICE model that once made deportations efficient by using local jails as a pipeline to federal detention centers.
- That model faded as sanctuary policies and lawsuits made local cooperation legally and politically costly.
Sanctuary Rules Protect Trust And Limit Liability
- Sanctuary policies aimed to separate local law enforcement from federal immigration work to preserve community trust and public-safety reporting.
- They also reduced local liability from holding people longer for ICE, shifting legal and financial risk away from counties.
Limit Cooperation To Narrow, Defined Steps
- Offer limited, specific cooperation like advance release notifications rather than full jail holds to reduce legal exposure and political backlash.
- Use narrowly defined criteria (serious violent crimes) to balance enforcement needs and local concerns.