My latest column argues that the administration doesn’t have a strategy on interior enforcement of the immigration laws that maximizes effectiveness, or crime reduction, or exposure of welfare fraud. What it maximizes instead is confrontation:
On the day of this latest shooting, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent Walz a letter listing the administration’s demands, the first being that the state share its data on Medicaid and food stamps. In isolation, that’s a reasonable request. It is not remotely plausible as a rationale for a militarized federal law enforcement operation in the state. Besides, the administration’s Minnesota operation has set back the anti-fraud campaign by inducing the prosecutor who had been leading it to resign.