Art Arthur

It's a great question.

It's actually a combination of both.

One thing that's clear for media reporting is that there is a bit of a dispute, disagreement within the Trump administration about how to go about enforcing the immigration laws in the interior.

How exactly to have the 6,000 ICE officers go out, identify, take into custody,

detain, prosecute, and remove all of those aliens.

On one side of this equation is Tom Homan.

Tom Homan has 42 years of experience in immigration enforcement.

He knows what works, he knows what doesn't, but he also understands the optics of the thing.

He understands that in order for any immigration policy, any immigration program to be successful, it has to be politically acceptable.

And for that reason, Homan's main focus has been on the tens of thousands of criminal aliens who are in the United States and also the million plus 1.6 million aliens who are under final orders in this country.

Now, there are others in the administration, I'm not privy to those discussions, who would prefer a policy in which we send officers out into the streets to identify individuals and take them into custody.

Now, I hew more toward the Homan strategy for a simple reason, Mike.

It's a lot more effective and it's a lot more resource effective.

If officers, if two officers go to a local jail,

Identify a criminal alien there or a couple of them, take them into custody.

We know that we're going to get that person.

If you send people to a Target parking lot or the local Home Depot hoping they're going to find somebody, you know, maybe you'll find people and maybe you won't.

That's never been the way that immigration enforcement has been done.

And honestly, I'm not even 100 percent sure that that's the way that immigration enforcement has been done under the Trump administration.

But that's certainly the popular narrative, which is why, you know, I was hardened, thought it was a good thing when Tom Homan went to Minnesota when the president sent him there a couple of weeks ago.