In the end, the conflict between federal immigration authorities and protesters in Minneapolis boiled down to one fundamental policy question: Should sanctuary cities be allowed to exist? Should cities, and counties, and states be allowed to prohibit their police from cooperating with the enforcement of federal immigration law, even as those local agencies cooperate with all other law enforcement?

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In the wake of Minneapolis, some hardcore Democratic leaders are doubling down on sanctuary policies. Erika Smith at Bloomberg summarized what’s going on in a piece titled “This Immigration Crackdown Is Creating More Sanctuary Cities.” Abigail Spanberger, the new Democratic governor of Virginia, has ordered state authorities to cancel any agreements with the federal government allowing cooperation with immigration enforcement. In New York, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing a bill to do the same thing. In New Jersey, new Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill has signed an order that in many situations will bar federal immigration authorities from state property. And in Maryland, Democratic Gov. Wes Moore is hoping to bar local jails from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

Similar things are happening in blue cities, which already had sanctuary policies. In New York, new Democratic Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to ban ICE agents from almost any city property unless the agents get a judicial warrant. And in Los Angeles, Democratic Mayor Karen Bass has just signed a law with new restrictions on ICE.

No surprises there. Anything to resist the hated Trump. What is striking, though, is at the same moment all that is happening, there is growing cooperation with federal immigration law enforcement elsewhere in the country.

NBC News reports that “agreements between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local law enforcement that allow officers to make federal immigration arrests have increased by 950% in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term.” The NBC report continues: “As of Jan. 26, there were 1,168 agencies with officers trained to help ICE, up from 135 during the Biden administration and 150 at the end of Trump’s first term.”

Source: SGT Report