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Pete Buttigieg on Immigration, Policing, and His Pitch to Libertarians

"I think a lot of people who voted for this administration did so believing that they would prioritize the most dangerous" undocumented immigrants, the possible 2028 presidential candidate tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.

Nick Gillespie | From the May 2026 issue

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Pete Buttigieg: Federal Agents Are Losing Public Trust

"If there was ever a moment for libertarians and conservatives to step up and join the rest of us, we're in it," former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg posted on X. He was responding to the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement tactics that had led to the deaths of two Americans in Minneapolis.

A former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Buttigieg won the Iowa caucuses during his 2020 presidential run. In February, the possible 2028 Democratic presidential candidate spoke with Reason's Nick Gillespie to make his case to libertarians.

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