The Morning Dispatch: DHS Spars With New York Over Immigration

Plus, reporting from the road in New Hampshire.

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Happy Friday! Man, what a week it’s been, both inside D.C. and out—from the president’s acquittal to the (still!) ongoing insanity that was (is!) the Iowa caucuses. We’re sure next week will be much smoother. 

Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories

  • Ahead of next week’s New Hampshire primary, the New Hampshire debate will take place tonight. Seven candidates have qualified: Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer, and Andrew Yang. 

  • The Yang campaign laid off dozens of staffers this week after a poor showing at the Iowa caucuses Monday. 

  • One day after his acquittal, President Trump spent his Thursday in a sequence of public appearances in which he alternately took victory laps, praised the lawmakers who helped carry him safely through the process, and uttered maledictions against those who stood in his way. His most frequent targets: Nancy Pelosi and Mitt Romney. Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump questioned the sincerity of the faith of both politicians, saying that “I don’t like people who use their faith as a justification for doing what they know is wrong.” 

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    RickW

    "This week, the Trump administration announced its latest effort to curb the rise of so-called sanctuary city laws that seek to block the federal government's use of state and local resources to combat illegal immigration."

    I find this to be an unfair characterization. It is written as though it was a policy change made specifically to harm sanctuary cities (and states). Really, it's more like this:

    - The DHS created the Trusted Traveler programs long before Trump was President
    - As part of these programs, background checks are run that include checking the state DMV records
    - NY State passed a law disallowing DHS from accessing the records
    - DHS can't check NY DMV records, therefore NY residents can't have they're backgrounds investigated
    - DHS announces that NY residents are no longer eligible for the Trusted Traveler programs

    That's not an "effort to curb the rise of so-called sanctuary city laws", it's just following the rules that were set up for the program.

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    kate sprouls

    reagan. both the line AND the delivery

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    td12212

    In this age of trumpian insult-mockery I don't think those sorts of passive aggressive put downs will do because the legions of folks called the GOP-base who thrive on insult-mockery won't get the nuance inherrent in those put downs. The only thing that works are the sorts of things Bloomberg came back with to Trump calling him a "liar who lies about everything, even about his obesity and orange hair".

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    MrJoMo

    Ronald Reagan's remark to Mondale forever eliminated overt age discrimination by a candidate...I hope. That being said, I often ask myself if the constitution should be amended to have a cap on maximum age for running for President, Senator or Representative, just as there is a minimum age for President.

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    td12212

    In this age of trumpian insult-mockery I don't think those sorts of passive aggressive put downs will do because the legions of folks called the GOP-base who thrive on insult-mockery won't get the nuance inherrent in those put downs. The only thing that works are the sorts of things Bloomberg came back with to Trump calling him a "liar who lies about everything, even about his obesity and orange hair".

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    Jeffrey B.

    The comments at the prayer breakfast by the President were a break from tradition - like the Speaker's introduction of Trump omitting traditional language, tearing up of the address, her bizarre attention-getting during the address, the entire last three years are a break from tradition. So why does this one thing deserve "re-emphasizing?" Noted that this joins the parade, and move on. Trump and the Speaker and the intelligence agencies and State Dept and many others have been anything but traditional for three plus years.

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    Butch Earl

    If I'm Mitt Romney, I'm not losing any sleep worrying about getting lectured about sincerity from Donald Trump and his lackeys.

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    Kevin Durant?

    “Midwesterners are so naturally kind that they find it difficult to turn on the nasty. Their political shots often come across as passive aggressive — or just passive. Which of these thinly veiled affronts embodies that sentiment the most?”
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    There was the time where Biden told an audience, about Mitt Romney:

    “He’s gonna put y’all back in.....ill-fitting dress shoes.”

    Iowa is so nice, in fact, that while campaigning there, Amy Klobuchar threw things at her employees underhand and Obama’s pastor switched his catch phrase to
    “Gosh darn America!!”

    My working theory is that Representative Steve King of Iowa has actually used up all of Iowa’s evil so there’s none left for anybody else

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    Cthocas

    "You're likable enough, Hillary," is a sentence if uttered today would be met by howling legions of progressives—not out of rage, but pain, as they contort themselves beyond human limits in their attempt to figure out whose Intersectionality Victimhood Quotient is higher, a successful black man's or a successful white woman's. I feel somewhat sorry for the Mayor currently known as Pete; his sexual orientation seems to have given him very little shielding against the furious lashings of Warren and Klobuchar surrogates, who have been fuming all week about his white male privilege. I really do need some sort of chart or algorithm to figure out this hierarchy of grievance. Perhaps Shadow can develop an app for me.

    Related: I learned yesterday Clinton won (or claims to have won) the 2008 Democratic primary popular vote. (If I knew this before, I certainly forgot it.) Destiny has not been terribly kind to her, I guess.

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    David

    “You’re likable enough Hillary” is classic Midwestern.

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      Kenton A. Hoover

      Though perhaps in this case, it’s The Chicago Way.

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