“Mom Confession” was one of several sketches in the episode that nodded to the latest developments in national news. Although the performance didn’t explicitly mention ICE’s brutal tactics in Minneapolis, the show was more frank elsewhere: The cold open featured former cast member Pete Davidson impersonating “border czar” Tom Homan in his attempt to take the temperature down in the city. ICE came up again in “Weekend Update,” and in the Marcello Hernández–led “Immigrant Dad Talk Show” sketch, which Hernández kicked off by addressing “all the white people that are sad about the immigrants getting deported.” But “Mom Confession” imagined how the news cycle might be playing out more intimately in some American homes, where political polarization within families has become a more salient topic since Donald Trump’s first election in 2016.