Art Arthur

And it's situations like that that require ICE officers to then go into the community after those criminals have been released from state and local custody to find them.

So, one-third of all ICE arrests take place in just three states, Florida, Texas, and Georgia, because those states cooperate with ICE officers.

They let them into their jails to take custody of them where they know that those aliens don't have weapons.

That can be done very neatly.

But in California, New York, and Chicago, and Minneapolis, they actually have to go into the communities to find those people.

Now...

Governor Walz in Minnesota, Mayor Jacob Fry in Minneapolis, they knew that.

They knew that those ICE officers were going to be out in the street looking for those criminal aliens.

But the really sort of despicable thing that they did was they didn't provide any state or local backup for when those officers went into the community before Tom Holman got to Minneapolis.

And for that reason, not only did you need one or two officers to take somebody into custody, but you needed 10 other officers to protect the two officers that were taking that person into custody.

And then the...

Democratic former Labor Party in Minnesota has on its Web site that you can sign up for something called constitutional observer training, which is where you show up wherever you see an ICE officer and you start blowing a whistle and you start yelling.

So, I mean, you know, there are no good guys in what happened in Minnesota, but the closest that, I mean, aside from the ICE officers themselves, you know, those agents, those officers, they had a job to do.

They wanted to do the job.

They wanted to do it as safely and quickly as possible, not only to protect themselves and to protect the aliens, but to protect the public in general.

So, you know, that's really the part of this story that nobody's talking about.

The only reason that ICE had to do what they did before Tom Homan got there was because they weren't getting state and local cooperation.

Now that the borders are as they are, they are.

And that's why they're able to draw down the operation.

Yeah, a couple of things, Mike.