Zeoli is fired up today as we dig into Tom Homan’s Minnesota move, why it’s working, and how it exposes the political games around ICE versus what real law enforcement actually wants.

We spend a big chunk of the show on Homan’s message from Minneapolis: this is a targeted operation, he wants officers and suspects going home alive, and cooperation is the whole point. We talk about how the loudest anti-ICE voices are often politicians and activists, while local and state law enforcement knows the streets need backup. And when that backup arrives “off-budget,” the incentives get real fast. The drawdown of 700 federal officers isn’t a retreat — it’s what happens when local agencies finally start filling the gap.

Then we get into two stories that connect in a way the press doesn’t wan ...