Jim Antle, the magazine executive editor, brings to life the pages of the Washington Examiner magazine in the show “Inside Scoop.” Each episode features exclusive insight from the article authors and expert analysis.
In this week’s episode, Antle focuses on rising tensions in Minnesota following protests against federal immigration enforcement and recent shootings involving ICE officers, examining how rhetoric from both parties has fueled unrest and pushed immigration back to the center of the national political debate.
“There are certainly a lot of things that the Trump administration could do differently, and [President Donald Trump] himself seems to recognize that,” Antle said. “The current political conditions around immigration were really fostered by the Biden administration. … The border was left relatively unguarded, and at least nine million illegal immigrants poured into the country.”
Antle is joined by Homeland Security reporter Anna Giaritelli, who recently reported from Minneapolis, to describe the atmosphere on the ground since the Trump administration dispatched border czar Tom Homan in an effort to lower tensions.
“I spoke with several senior federal law enforcement officials working on that plan,” Giaritelli said. “They are in the early steps of it, but still waiting to get trade-offs from Minneapolis and Minnesota before they can begin.”
Giaritelli later said the Trump administration’s dispute with Minnesota officials centers on cooperation from local jails. The Republican White House has argued that when detainees are not turned over to ICE, federal officers must go into communities to locate them.
Later in the show, Antle is joined by Washington Examiner magazine managing editor David Mark to discuss how former Republican lawmakers are attempting political comebacks in Florida.
“This is a really unusual case, because you have two former Republican House members who moved to Florida, [who] now are running,” Mark said. “One of them got a lot of notoriety in his one and only two-year term.”
Mark explains how former North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn and former New York Rep. Chris Collins both suffered from controversies. But now, they are looking to make political comebacks in Trump’s backyard.
“I don’t think that’s an exaggeration to say that it was just about ten years ago with his time, Collins was the first Republican member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump for president, even before Senator Jeff Sessions, then of Alabama,” Mark said. “It may seem funny now, but Trump was an outlier in Republican politics.”
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