Bill Kristol

They're busy.

They're arresting the worst of the worst, Tim, and deporting them to El Salvador and stuff.

It's really making us safer as a country and better off, I think, you know?

I think we've all learned a little more about Border Patrol on the one hand and ICE on the other, at least I have, than I knew before.

I obviously had a sense of what they were up to.

Border Patrol really turns out to be a

I mean, a problematic agency, maybe you have to be problematic if you're roaming the border and dealing with gangs of coyotes, as they call them, and human traffickers.

I mean, it's a tough job.

They were never meant to be deployed to cities.

They were never meant to be dealing with peaceful demonstrators.

They were never meant to be dealing with people who are harassing them a little bit in the way demonstrators do, but within their constitutional rights.

They're supposed to be dealing with people or arrest them if they're breaking the law.

I mean, I would say they are not the people you want policing the streets of major cities.

And we've seen that now.

And I do think there, it's not a recruiting thing.

It is the nature of every agency.

And a little more so in the last 10, 15 years as the border stuff has heated up, obviously, than before.

ICE was more of not a big, you know, contact with the people agency.

ICE picked up the people in jails who were undocumented immigrants who had finished serving their term, perhaps, in some local prison or whatever, drove them to the airport and put them on the planes out there.

I'm being a little too