We have to dive straight in with our
main story this week, which concerns
what's been happening in Minnesota. From
the surge in immigration raids to the
killings of Renee Good and Alex Prey to
the massive protests in the streets. And
to be clear, for all this
administration's talk of paid agitators,
the protests there came from justifiably
furious locals like this almost absurdly
Midwestern man. You know what really
pisses me off is the fact that they
detain people, cuff them, and then still
beat the out of them. They tell you
it's immigrants, only immigrants. It's
anybody.
I I have friends that got detained, and
all they were doing was driving
home from work. What the
>> Sounds like you don't fit the definition
of the uh
>> Oh, and I'm not paid TO BE HERE
LIKE EVERYBODY SAYS. WHAT THE
IS THAT? I got to work in the
goddamn morning just like everybody
else. I'm just here trying to stand up
for community, dude. We're all human
beings here. I don't give a who you
are, where you came from, what color you
are. It doesn't matter. This is
wrong. YEAH. AND YOU KNOW you are acting
like a bunch of dicks when you're
provoking that level of response in
Minnesota. A state whose whole thing is
being MINNESOTA NICE. THEY PUT IT ON
MERCH.
Other states couldn't pull that off,
especially because Florida nice sounds
like a brand of pills you buy from the
gas station that makes your heart
explode. And I will say this does seem
like a turning point for this
administration on immigration. Polls
show the majority of Americans do not
approve of what's been happening and nor
should they because for all Trump's talk
of targeting the worst of the worst,
that rings pretty hollow when you see
agents doing things like dragging a US
citizen out of his house and his
underwear through the snow and taking a
5-year-old into custody. It is frankly
no wonder anti-I sentiment has spread to
places that you might not even expect.
from Pop-Tarts the Cat who posted video
with ice on it to the subreddit
Massive where users captions
dickpicks with things like how hard I
get when I think about abolishing ICE to
an AEW match in Vegas earlier this month
where this happened.
>> Now the face in the eyes of the champion
Excellent.
Well done to everyone involved there,
from the crowds getting their point
across in the perfect way to MJF going
full Jim from the office into the
camera. The point is to the extent they
ever had it, ICE and Border Patrol have
clearly lost the public's trust. And it
frankly hasn't helped to see grotesque
clips like this one at Mara Lago on New
Year's Eve of Christ dancing with Steven
Miller.
>> Look, there is so much weird stuff going
on in that clip that you probably didn't
even notice the Ninja Turtle dancing
with Vanilla Ice on stage there. HERE IS
A BETTER ANGLE of Michelangelo being
photographed at the exact moment he
seems TO REALIZE JUST HOW MANY PEOPLE IN
THAT ROOM were mentioned in the Epstein
fires.
Now, I should say there have been some
promising developments this week.
Democratic leaders seem to have finally
read the public's anger and are
currently holding up funds for DHS as a
whole as they push for new restrictions
on immigration agents. And on Thursday,
this happened tonight. Borders are Tom
H. Home. Homeman says the massive
immigration operation that's been going
on for months in Minnesota, Operation
Metro Surge, is coming to an end.
>> We've had great success with this
operation and we're leaving Minnesota
safer. There were some issues here and
we address those issues, but I'm not
going to sit here and say anybody did
anything wrong.
>> Really? Well, first and least
importantly, you are standing. Like,
you're not going to sit there and say
anything because you're a standing man.
But I think it's pretty clear that a lot
of people did a lot of things wrong, not
least your tailor because that suit
looks like you bought it off the rack at
fancy press conference clothes for
uncarismatic business Shreks. And look,
I am glad for any draw down that takes
place in Minnesota if it indeed happens.
But even if every agent leaves town,
much larger problems are going to remain
both there and on the national level
because we are going to continue to see
this administration obsessively pursue
Steven Miller's stated goal of racking
up 3,000 arrests a day. So given that,
we thought for our first show of the
year, it might be worth pulling back a
bit and talking not just about
Minneapolis or even just ICE, but about
the massive agency it's a part of, the
Department of Homeland Security. because
as you're about to see, a discussion
about it, its funding, and the sweeping
powers that we've given it is long
overdue. So, tonight, let's look at DHS.
So, let's start with its origins.
Because, while you might assume DHS is a
long-standing part of American
government, it's just 23 years old. It
was founded as a response to 911. And if
you are too young to remember 911, and I
will pause long enough for the rest of
us to experience the psychic gut punch
of that sentence. Very basically, in the
immediate aftermath of the most
devastating terrorist attack in its
history, America started screaming and
didn't really stop for a decade. And
while thankfully the Riad Comedy
Festival has since healed the worlds
through comedy and we don't need to be
worried about who or what was actually
responsible for 9/11, at the time a
major concern was that prior to the
attacks, there had been a lack of
communication and information sharing
between federal agencies. So the Bush
administration agreed to combine a bunch
of them under a single banner to improve
coordination. But even back then, some
felt that that was a bad idea to the
point that it was openly discussed in
news coverage.
>> What do Secret Service agents have in
common with animal disease researchers?
Nothing. Except that in 3 months, both
will be working for the new Homeland
Security Department. An organizational
chart they could give a management
expert nightmares. 22 agencies, 170,000
workers, the third largest department in
the government. Okay, first it is a
little weird to introduce a government
agency like it's a new sitcom. What
happens when an uptight TSA agent and a
laid-back FEMA official have to move in
together? Find out in Homeland Security
Thursdays on TBS.
But the larger point there that this
thing had been hastily cobbled together
very much holds because all of a sudden
DHS contained everything from the Secret
Service to the Coast Guard to FEMA and
TSA. But for everything that went in,
some key counterterrorism agencies were
left out because DHS had to operate
without the investigative intelligence
and military powers of the FBI, CIA, and
the Pentagon. But don't worry, cuz
remember, they had those pig
researchers. So, they were pretty much
set. Now, as a result, DHS tried to
justify its existence in a number of
different ways, including by explicitly
linking immigration enforcement with
countering terrorism. In fact, it was
during the creation of DHS that parts of
the Im I im I im I im I im I im I im I
im I im I im I immigration and
naturalization service and US customs
service were combined to form Customs
and Border Protection and ICE the two
agencies that we know and are being
terrorized by today. But oversight of
all of this was a total nightmare as the
members of Congress that oversaw all of
those agencies didn't want to give up
control. So DHS found itself answering
to around a 100 committees and
subcommittees which as the chair of the
9/11 commission explained caused chaos.
>> Think of having a 100 bosses. Think of
reporting up this way and that way
trying to do your job and yet you're
reporting to 100 people. It's crazy
because it makes no sense and and you
could not do your job under those
circumstances.
>> Yeah, that does make sense. Having an
endless cavalcade of rapidly changing
bosses would clearly be a distraction.
I've got to say, you do eventually get
used to it. I I don't even know which of
these companies is going to be my new
business daddy yet. It's like a mama mia
situation, except less fun and way less
sexy. But incidentally, if it is indeed
Netflix, sorry for all the times I
called your catalog a who's who of the
is this? Love the ending of
Stranger Things. By the way, very brown.
And good luck with Detective Hole. It
sounds great. Now, complaints about the
unwieldy nature of DHS persisted over
the years. And yet, despite that, money
kept flowing into it, even as it became
known for things like its mass
surveillance programs, particularly of
American Muslims, and its widely mocked
color-coded terrorism threat charts,
which never dropped below yellow. It
also became notorious for its
willingness to distribute billions of
dollars to state and local authorities.
In fact, on the 10-year anniversary of
9/11, one California news station
compiled just some of what that money
had been wasted on.
>> Marin County received more than $100,000
in surveillance equipment to protect its
water treatment system from terrorist
attack. Four years after the money was
handed out, state authorities found
$67,000 worth of gear still in boxes. It
had never been used. Several counties
and cities bought Segway scooters for
their bomb squads. Each one cost $4,700.
Okay, first I'm not sure anything says
we have too much money more than buying
a Segway. And second, that is
just an unfathomably dorky look. It
doesn't scream brave bomb diffuser as
much as it does beekeeper mall cop.
And with expenditures like that, it's no
wonder that a 2015 report from a
Republican senator found that despite
spending over half a trillion dollars,
DHS was not successfully executing any
of its five main missions and its
primary counterterrorism programs were
yielding little value. But because no
one in power back then wanted to break
apart something that had Homeland
Security in its name, DHS remained the
largest federal law enforcement agency
with massive funding, sweeping
surveillance authority, and worryingly
unclear checks on its own power. It was
essentially a loaded weapon sitting on a
president's desk in the Oval Office,
only held back by their personal sense
of temperance and restraint. All of
which brings us back to this
guy. Because in his first term, Trump
and this sleep paralysis demon used DHS
to push everything from his Muslim ban
to family separation to his efforts to
end darker. But from the very start of
Trump's second term, it was clear they
had much bigger plans for DHS. Starting
with the fact Trump put one of his
biggest allies, Christy Nome, in charge
of it. And even new stories about her
announcement at the time contained some
pretty clear hints that she was a bad
choice. Tonight, President-elect Donald
Trump expected to name one of his
staunchest campaign supporters. Are you
ready? South Dakota Governor Christy
Gnome to lead the massive Department of
Homeland Security. Trump once considered
Gnome as a potential running mate, but
her star dimmed after writing in her
memoir that she had shot and killed the
family dog.
>> Yeah, not great. And even Trump, who has
been endowed by Satan with an ability to
survive any bad press whatsoever,
somehow knew that picking a VP, who
bragged about speed running Old Yeller,
is a bad move. No one wants to share a
ticket with John Wils wolf here. In
fact, Trump was so turned off by Gnome's
dog news, he apparently said to Don Jr.
afterwards, "That's not good at all.
Even you wouldn't kill a dog and you
kill everything." Just another brief
window into a family dynamic that a
skilled therapist would describe as
cha-ching.
And crucially, Gnome didn't bring a lot
of nondog murdering experience to the
job. She'd never worked in DHS or indeed
law enforcement, but in a foreshadowing
of things to come as governor of South
Dakota, she was a relentless
self-promoter. In as for her state, she
appeared in various job themed costumes,
including a dentist, a nurse, an
electrician, a plumber, a welder, and a
construction worker, selling each role
with incredible charisma.
>> South Dakota has the blueprint for
success. Recently, we led the nation in
new home building, but we're still
growing so fast. We need to hire more
builders to keep up. So, I'm pitching
in. Look, I know her performance is
pretty flat there, but in her defense,
who's going to tell her that she can't
act? Not anyone who likes their dog,
that's for sure. Also, I'm in a bit of a
tough spot here because I refuse to
comment on a woman's looks, but one of
my female writers has insisted that I
read something that she's written, and I
also refuse to silence women's voices.
So given that
a ponytail for practical working
purposes is intended to keep hair off
the base of the neck and/or out of the
eyes. If you leave the front part of
your hair out and keep the bottom part
of your hair down loosely around your
shoulders, it's not a working ponytail,
it's a hairdo. And John, please do make
sure that you put that second hair in
air quotes because there is just no way
that Clydesdale tail is the real hair of
that dog killer with a bad filler. Her
words, not mine, her words,
believe women.
And the thing is, no immediately brought
to DHS that same unrelenting focus on
PR. From shooting a video in the
Salvador and Sakott prison while wearing
a $50,000 Rolex to cosplaying as a law
enforcement agent, from wearing a
bulletproof vest on the streets of New
York to putting on Coast Guard fatigues
to dressing up like a border patrol
agent on Fox News. And if it seems like
she's got cameras with her wherever she
goes, it's because she basically does.
Here she is with a camera crew on the
roof of an immigration detention
facility outside of Chicago. And fun
fact, these two men, Carl Frankovich and
Juan Munoz, were protesting outside that
day only to be arrested. And to hear
them tell it, that seemed to have less
to do with their actions and much more
to do with the presence of Gnome and her
social media crew.
>> An agent grabbed me, threw me down. I
was then zip tied and detained.
>> I was pulled to the ground um and
ordered arrested. It felt very much like
we were just being used for this
political theater. Christine Gnome was
able to walk past us um surrounded by
photographers, videographers,
essentially just getting us in the
background as she walked by.
>> Then look what happened. Homeland
Security sent out these social media
posts showing Kyle in handcuffs. This
one said, "We will not allow violent
activists to lay hands on our law
enforcement." And they also posted this
government promotional video. And
there's Kyle again. He and Munoz were
never charged with any crime.
>> That's true. Despite being labeled
violent activists, they were never
charged with anything. So it seems they
were arrested just for a photo op for
Christy Gnome, which is, if I may quote
her own dog's dying words, rough. BUT
BUT IT GOES WAY beyond optics. Gnome has
been put in charge of DHS at a moment
when it's experiencing an unprecedented
funding surge. Trump's big, beautiful
bill last summer essentially doubled
DHS's funding over the next four years.
And it's worth looking at where all of
that money is and equally importantly
isn't going because DHS's resources now
being pointed at immigration more
heavily than ever before. To the point
that it's being called a veritable
department of deportation. ICE alone was
handed an extra $75 billion to spend
over Trump's term, tripling its annual
budget and leading to this startling
fact.
>> Overnight it became the highest funded
federal law enforcement agency in US
history. If ICE was a military, it would
be the 17th richest in the world, worth
about the same as Canada's entire armed
forces.
>> It's true. And whatever the appropriate
budget for ICE is, and they're making a
pretty compelling argument for it being
zero right now, one thing it should
definitely not be, is the same as the
entire Canadian military. Though to be
fair, that's not a perfect one, as I'm
pretty sure the Canadian military
doesn't totally eat on slightly
slippery sidewalks. Now, a lot of that
money is earmarked for immigration
detention facilities, the conditions at
which we have talked about before on
this show, and which are unlikely to get
better given ominous headlines like ICE
begins buying mega warehouse detention
centers across the US. But a lot is also
going to hiring thousands of new ICE
agents with DHS planning to spend a
hundred million dollars over a one-year
period just on advertising. It it's part
of what it's called a wartime
recruitment strategy. Those ads are
everywhere.
>> Slickly produced social media videos.
>> Join ICE and help us catch the worst of
the worst.
>> Televised ads targeting local police and
a celebrity endorsement. These are all
part of a major multi-million dollar
recruitment campaign launched by the
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Agency. It shared images using wartime
imagery like Uncle Sam and slang like in
this post with the caption, quote, "Want
to deport illegals with your absolute
boys?" That's going to be on social
media. It's going to be through
streamers. So, YouTube and other places
where user generated content is, but
also largecale broadcast and streaming
platforms like Hulu, HBO Max, Amazon
Prime, all of this sort of thing.
>> Yeah, I'll be honest. I don't love
hearing my employer's name on that list.
Though, I guess at least I do get a
reminder of what the company's name is
this year. It's it's also slightly
satisfying to know that one place those
ads have been running is in front of AEW
wrestling, meaning that ICE is having to
pay money to appear alongside this.
>> It's still very good. Now, DHS claims
those ads are working. They say they've
hired 12,000 new ICE agents and officers
since last summer. While there are good
reasons to believe those figures are
inflated, we're still going to have a
lot more ICE agents on our streets this
year. And that should be a real concern,
especially because to hire so many
officers so quickly, they've had to
significantly lower their standards for
new recruits, doing things like waving
age requirements, condensing the
training period, and ending requirements
like taking 5 weeks of Spanish language
training, which is a bad idea for many
reasons, including those agents now
won't get to understand even a little
bit of Bad Bunny's music, WHICH IS SAD
FOR THEM. They're missing out on a lot
of joy, plenty of political commentary,
and a metric ton of
DESCRIPTIONS. THERE IS A LOT in it's a
rich text.
And the thing is, even with those lower
standards, one report found that more
than a third of new ICE recruits had
failed a physical fitness test that
required 15 push-ups, 32 sit-ups, and
running 1 and a half miles in 14
minutes, which, and I do not say this
lightly, is a test even I could pass.
Also, and more upsettingly, nearly half
were later sent home because they
couldn't pass the written exam, which
covers things like when officers can and
can't conduct searches and seizures. And
it gets even worse when you learn that
during that test, they were allowed to
consult their textbook and notes. Yeah.
Half of them failed an open book test.
And as we all know, that is the easiest
kind of test, even easier than urine.
That one is actually harder than you
think. Midstream is a delicate dance.
And as the former acting director of ICE
points out, this is all a very bad sign.
>> Yeah. I mean, look, some of these moves
frankly have resulted in some
embarrassing candidates. ICE agents have
tremendous authority when they're out
there on the streets. We have to know
that these people a have that integrity
are going to when no one's looking, are
they going to do things the right way?
And secondly, are they getting into this
for the right reason? And obviously
there's a tremendous concern as well
that the administration is going after
individuals who harbor some animist
towards immigrants,
>> right? Because it doesn't seem unfair to
assume that some might have applied for
that job less out of a sense of public
duty and more because they oh, I don't
know, want to deport illegals with their
absolute boys. And that concern has been
compounded by a disturbing pattern of
what sure seems like white nationalist
dog whistles in these recruiting ads.
Like this post reading which way
American man invoking a meme associated
with this anti-semitic book popular
among neo-Nazis. And this one using the
phrase we'll have our home again the
title of a song released by a white
nationalist band popular with farright
groups like the Proud Boys. And if that
connection seems at all like a stretch
to you, you should know the Proud Boys
themselves don't seem to think so.
>> On the messaging app Telegram, one
chapter reposted that ad next to a
picture of a literal dog whistle, adding
the line, "Message received."
>> Oh, cool. Although, I do have to say the
whole point of a dog whistle is
plausible deniability. So, saying, "We
hear and understand your dog whistle,"
does sort of wreck the whole agreement.
But I guess that is the risk that you
run when your secret master plan has to
rely on some of the dumbest people
alive. Now, I have to tell you, we
reached out to DHS for comment and they
angrily denied any dog whistles, adding,
"We will not apologize for using
patriotic messaging and symbolism in our
advertisements. They also told us, and I
quote, "One could say we are Homeland
Maxing by removing illegal aliens and
defending our borders." Is a sentence I
genuinely feel dumber for saying out
loud. So that is where money and
resources at DHS have been surging too.
But the administration is also pulling
resources away from other key parts of
the agency. And let's start with just
the reallocation of resources under ICE.
Because for the record, before Trump
came along, deportation was not ISIS's
sole focus. It actually consisted of two
branches. ERO or Enforcement and Removal
Operations, which handles detentions and
deportations, and Homeland Security
Investigations, or HSI, which is tasked
with complex investigations into things
like drug smuggling and human
trafficking, with many of their targets
not even immigrants. Diddy's case, for
instance, was run by HSI agents. And
many HSI officials have long wanted to
be formally separated from ICE. And for
obvious reasons, if you need cooperation
in a human trafficking investigation,
it's harder to get it from someone who
thinks that you might deport them. But
in Trump's second term, he has gone hard
in the other direction, signing an
executive order on day one, announcing
enforcing immigration law would be the
primary mission of HSI. And that has had
real consequences as highly trained
agents who specialized in things like
money laundering and counterterrorism
cases have now been sent to do things
like pick up people in parking lots.
Here is a guy in an HSI jacket arresting
people at a Home Depot in LA last year.
And that is not good because there's
probably other important stuff he was
supposed to be doing that day. In the
first part of last year, HSI agents
worked an average of 33% fewer hours on
child exploitation cases, which is just
maddening. There is a reason of SVU
don't involve them abandoning a case
halfway through because they then have
to go spend the rest of the episode
harassing people outside of a
Lowe's. People would riot.
But it's not just reallocations within
ICE. Not only have CBP agents been
diverted from the border, they've pulled
in law enforcement from outside of DHS.
According to one estimate, last year,
one in five US marshals, one in five FBI
agents, half of DEA agents, and over
twothirds of ATF agents had been
reassigned to help handle deportations.
And look, I'm not saying everything
those agencies were doing was a good use
of their time. For more on that, see any
number of episodes of this show. But it
is notable that for all Trump's
justification of immigration crackdowns
to fight drugs and cartels. As this
former DHS intelligence official points
out, that's exactly what is being dep
prioritized.
>> If FBI agents are not working on drug
gang task forces, then there are fewer
investigations into violent street gangs
and drug trafficking cartels.
>> And with such a large contingent pulled
from their duties, he says drug cartels
and bad actors are watching. I am 100%
certain that they are tracking that
federal agents are being moved out of
drug task forces and seeking to
determine ways to exploit the reduced
resources on those task forces.
>> Yeah, of course cartels are going to
take advantage. Drug king kingpins by
and large aren't stupid. Mostly because
drug kingpins who are stupid tend to
spend a very short time as kingpins and
much longer as a suspicious mound of
earth somewhere in the Mexican desert.
It's kind of a self-editing field. And
I'm still not done listing
misallocations of resources because at
the same time that Nome has surged
funding to some areas of DHS, she's
actively starved others. For instance,
CISA, which handled cyber security, lost
roughly a thousand staffers. more than a
third of the agency, meaning it is now
less equipped to do things like protect
our electrical grids or secure our
elections. But maybe the biggest example
of a department being hamstrung is FEMA.
It is the agency that handles the
federal response to disasters. Many
believe it never really belonged in DHS
in the first place and that it's ending
up there contributed to its failures
during Hurricane Katrina. And if you're
too young to remember Hurricane Katrina,
I'm afraid you're just going to have to
off. Suffice to say that FEMA did
not have a good Katrina. Perhaps best
summed up by this entirely fair question
in front of a flood damaged apartment
complex. Now, soon after Trump took
office, FEMA lost about a third of its
total full-time staff. And it's also
been heavily impacted by a new rule
across DHS which states that every
contracting grant over $100,000 must now
cross Gnome's desk for approval. law to
put that in terms that Christine can
understand, two wristwatches. And that
requirement is clearly absurd generally,
but especially at FEMA, an agency that
handles emergency relief that needs to
get out quickly. At one point, about $17
billion in federal disaster funds for
states, was held up for an extra layer
of review by Gnome, causing unusual
delays in payments. And I'd say that I
can't even imagine how chaotic that
process must look. But luckily, I
actually can because another of Gnome's
South Dakota ads literally showed her as
an overworked accountant with ticker
tape all over the place. Not exactly
doing a great job.
>> We have close to 20,000 open jobs,
including accountants. So, I'm filling
in.
>> South Dakota freedom works here.
>> Governor Nome, you didn't carry the two.
>> Josh, kiss my abocus. Okay, it seems
once more I find myself in a tough spot
because again I have been told to read
something to you and I don't feel like I
can say no.
The precise way for you to describe what
Christine was actively chosen to look
like there is mother of the bride who
asked for the exact same hair as the
bride.
Also, John, while I have your attention,
maybe it's time for you to be putting a
little gray in the eyebrow makeup.
You're not fooling anyone. Let's be
adults about this. Those are her words.
She's brutally honest. Brutally honest.
She's a bad person. The future is
female. The thing is,
known delaying funding approvals at FEMA
has already had serious consequences
when there were deadly floods in Texas
last year, 2 days after nearly twothirds
of the calls to FEMA's disaster
assistance line went unanswered. Now, I
have to tell you, Nome has disputed that
report, saying it's just false, and that
report needs to be validified. Though, I
believe that sentence itself could
benefit from being spellch checkerated.
And not for nothing, Gnome's $100,000
signoff meant that according to one
former FEMA official, the FEMA building
itself almost had its utility shut off
last year because the bill wasn't paid.
And the truth is, so far we've been
incredibly lucky that there hasn't been
an even worse disaster where FEMA's
problems were more fully exposed. As
last year, for the first time in a
decade, not a single hurricane struck
the US. But our luck can only hold out
for so long. Last August, over 180 FEMA
employees sent a letter to Congress
warning the Trump officials actions were
risking a Katrina level disaster, which
is a pretty haunting thing to hear. And
it's more than a little dispiriting to
realize that the Frankenstein of an
agency that we cobbled together after
9/11 is now siphoning resources away
from things that actually protect us.
Even as it floods resources to a bunch
of guys in ski masks with questionable
Reddit histories who blast rap rock out
of the window of their government issued
kidnap mobilebiles all for the benefit
of Christy Gnome's Tik Tok. So
what can we do? Well, first and most
immediately, with DHS impartial shutdown
over its funding, Democrats have to use
every ounce of leverage they've got to
get major concessions. Bernie Sanders
has proposed an amendment that would
repeal the $75 billion in additional
funding that ICE received. And what I
don't know if they'll be able to get all
the way to that, they should at the very
least get as many hard enforceable
limits on immigration agents activities
as possible. Now, second, we need to get
rid of ICE. PERIOD. PUBLIC TRUST IN IT
RIGHT NOW IS hovering somewhere between
Purdue Farmer and the Titan submersible.
It is just not salvageable. And if
you're thinking, well, who will enforce
immigration law if ICE is gone? I don't
know. Maybe the agencies that did it for
decades before 2003. As for DHS as a
whole, I would argue it's no longer
tenable in its current form. And while
maybe there is an argument for having a
larger agency coordinating different
federal departments, it should probably
be redesigned from the ground up and
deliberately this time, not by suddenly
gluing together or charts in a blind
panic. But if I can make one last
broader point here, cosmetic changes
just aren't going to be enough. Because
even if you get rid of Christy Gnome,
which you should, Steven Miller will
still be there. And even if you get rid
of him, this administration will remain.
But even if they are GONE AND WE GET rid
of ICE and DHS, we're still going to be
left with the broken immigration laws
that gave them permission to do what
they have done. Millions of people will
continue to be vulnerable because, as
we've discussed repeatedly before on
this show, our current immigration
system makes it somewhere from difficult
to impossible for many to come in the
right way. That boy in the blue hat and
his dad were scooped up despite being in
the process of seeking asylum. And we've
shown you multiple videos of people
being arrested as they showed up for
their immigration appointments. And that
is actually a bit of a tell because that
is clearly not this administration
targeting the worst of the worst. It's
them desperately trying to juice up
their numbers. And it is the law that
allows them to do that. And that is
actually something that Tom Hman made a
point of reiterating to people when he
was first sent to Minnesota two weeks
ago. For the people out there don't like
what ISIS is doing, if you want certain
laws reformed, then take it up with
Congress. Again, ISIS is making this up.
They're enforcing laws enacted by
Congress and Pine signed by president.
The same laws have been on the books
for the last six presidents I work for.
If you don't like what ISIS is doing,
instead of protesting this building, go
pro to protest Congress. Tell me you
want changes.
>> Well, hold on there, Tom. Why just one
or the other? People could absolutely do
both. Porqu no lost doss. If I may quote
a phrase, it seems most new ICE recruits
will have absolutely no chance of
understanding.
But he is right there. Trump's policy of
mass deportations is built on existing
laws. And if America doesn't like what
that policy looks like now that they've
seen what it really means, then it needs
to do something about it. To the
extent that we are all horrified by day
labors and grandfathers and little kids
in bunny hats being terrorized by men in
March, then we need to elect people who
will commit to writing laws that reflect
that. And I've got to say, it does say
something that to the extent that anyone
over the last few months has been
protecting our homeland and keeping it
secure, it has not been Christy Gnome in
her wide array of fun outfits or
whichever 20-year-old been
pumping out Nazi flavored content on
Twitter. It has been ordinary people on
the streets of Minneapolis blowing
whistles, delivering food to friends who
are afraid to leave their houses, and
marching in the cold even though they've
got godamn work in the morning. Because,
if I may quote that gloriously frozen
Midwestern man, they believe we are all
human beings here and that this is
wrong. And now this