Why Trump Voters Are Torn Over Minneapolis

From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily. The question of what to do about undocumented immigrants has long bonded President Trump to his supporters, so much so that an overwhelming majority of them back his all out crackdown over the past year. But then came the extraordinary events of the past few weeks in Minneapolis, where federal agents killed two American citizens in the streets. Suddenly, two of the MAGA movement's biggest priorities, fighting illegal immigration and fighting government overreach, were colliding in the most vivid way imaginable. Today, we speak with Trump voters about how they're making sense of that clash, and how, in some cases, it's fundamentally changing their view of the president. It's Monday, February 9. Hello? Hi. This is Caitlin calling from The New York Times. How are you? Hi. My name is Jessica Chung, and we met a while ago around the Maricopa Republican's office. Over the past few weeks, as tensions in Minnesota ramped up, daily producers Caitlin O'Keefe and Jessica Chung spoke with over a dozen people who voted for Donald Trump in the last election. I'm in Massachusetts. Oh, you are? I'm in my garage talking to you right now. I'm smoking a cigar while we're having this conversation. Nice. Wow. For many of them, immigration had been a major reason for that vote. I remember they painted the picture that there was a large caravan. That's what they called it. A continuous flow of migrant caravans coming up. That was my impression is that people were coming over in droves. And it looked like there was ten, twenty, 30,000 people or more. And then they were like, oh, yeah. You know, there's all these Chinese people coming through the border. Like, it was just, like, random things you would hear, and you're like, wait, what? What is going on? And from the moment Trump was sworn in for a second term, they were impressed with just how quickly and decisively he took action to close the border. Oh, I think he did a fantastic job with it. This is absolutely extraordinary. And he just used existing laws. He said, okay. Border's closed. We went from being invaded on a daily basis to borders where law and order prevailed. We keep hearing people talk about how the immigration system's broken. Well, the immigration laws are broken. Yet, in fact, we discovered that was not true. It's not broken. It's just not enforced. You just simply need to enforce them. What a novel concept. Once they closed the border, then the next step was to get people out that came in illegally. In practice, that meant deploying thousands of federal agents into the streets of American cities. It meant huge protests against ICE and border patrol Get the the National Guard going into neighborhoods No. Detentions at courthouses And federal agents showing up at workplaces, at stores, and near schools. It's still really scary to see our friends …