Astead Herndon

We talk to election experts and they say, you know, our kind of decentralized system is too disparate to be hacked or that maybe some of these fears of Trump taking over the midterms are a little overblown.

I wanted to see, like, how worried should the public be about this kind of question of fraud?

Is there any case that this is like, you know, Democrats playing politics on that question?

You know, I want to ask about the specific issue of immigration beyond kind of what Trump is doing.

You know, Democrats have also been a part of funding and expanding ICE over the years.

President Barack Obama gave Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, a top citizen honor for his work on immigration and deportations in 2015.

As recently as 2024, I remember Democrats on the presidential campaign trail agreeing that illegal immigration was a problem.

Cities even like Chicago have struggled with an increase of undocumented migrants in recent years.

I remember my family, who lives in the suburbs here, talking about how they see more people on the street over the last four or five years.

It's strained things beyond public safety, but also social services.

Sometimes it feels as if Democrats

want deportations to happen.

They just want them to happen quietly and not necessarily like we're seeing from the Trump administration.

Is it just a matter of tone here?

Or like, what is the tangible difference between what Democrats want to happen versus what Donald Trump is doing beyond the question of ICE and CBP?

So when you say stop the funding, stop the occupations, stop the killing, what you're saying is that that amounts to a call to defund and replace ICE.

You know, one thing that the Trump White House says, and I've even heard you say, is that they want to focus on folks who have been convicted of violent crimes.

Absolutely.

Everyone seems to agree, from public to Democrats to Republicans, that folks who are undocumented immigrants who have been convicted of violent crimes should be deported.

Why isn't that happening?