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WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Kautz says she now carries her passport around the Minneapolis suburb where she’s been the mayor since 1995.
“Those ICE agents don’t know that I’m the mayor of the city of Burnsville,” Kautz, a Republican who has occasionally diverted from the Trump administration’s views, said Wednesday as the United States Conference of Mayors opened its meeting in Washington. “I could be coming out of a store and be harassed so I need to make sure that I have credentials on me.”
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