Art Arthur

So I think it was.

But yeah, I mean, the images, you know, they say a picture says a thousand words, but often those thousand words don't actually accurately reflect what should be done.

In the face of that, the appropriate thing is to very calmly, the way that Mr. Homan did in Minnesota, address what is being done, what you're actually seeing there.

If you go attacking people and saying, oh my God, you're so stupid, you don't understand what you're doing, that's not a very good strategy.

And like salt being poured on a wound, the media is going to close around its own narrative and not differ from it.

So...

I think that, you know, one thing that the Trump administration could have done early on was to speak with one voice, talk about what they were going to do, talk about how they were going to target those individuals.

But here's really the most crucial part, Mike.

Talk about the requirements that those agents are operating under.

You may remember Lake and Riley, and you may even remember the Lake and Riley Act, which was the first bill that Congress passed in the current 119th Congress.

In fact, it's Public Law 119-1.

The Lake and Riley Act expanded the number of criminals and other individuals that the Trump administration must take into custody.

So even tighter than the restrictions that were on previous administrations.

That one requires ICE to go out and pick up every shoplifter, every thief, every larcenist.

There were 1.15 million instances of shoplifting in the United States last year, Mike.

And, you know, I'm not going to say that the majority of those people were aliens, but a significant number were.

And now under the Lake and Riley Act, they must pick those people up.

The Lake and Riley Act also requires ICE to go out and pick up all 1.6 million people who are under final orders of removal.

That was not really optional before, but it's really not optional now.

And in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons revealed something amazing.