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President Trump’s return to the White House has brought mass deportations, ICE in New York’s courts and neighborhoods, and a new threat to strip funding from sanctuary cities, even as Governor Kathy Hochul leans into affordability, tech regulation, and nuclear power while navigating her relationship with Mayor Zohran Mamdani. In this episode of New York Times Close Up, Sarah Maslin Nir talks with reporter Ben Oreskes about Hochul’s State of the State agenda, rent relief for seniors, child care, SNAP fraud fixes, protest limits near religious sites, and an uneasy alliance with Mamdani, and then with immigration reporter Luis Ferré Sadurní about how ICE’s courthouse arrests, check-ins, and street operations are reshaping daily life for New York’s immigrant communities under a renewed sanctuary fight.

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