Bill Kristol

but it's sort of basically what they did.

And of course there, there's been massive recruiting.

We know the nature of that recruitment, very white nationalists and, you know, ridiculous macho kind of stuff.

And so the combination of the two is really bad.

I mean, in this case, it is, as you say, it's not new border patrol agents.

It's people who've been around for a decade.

I think ICE, if I've seen the numbers correctly, like half their agents will have been hired in the last year who's volunteering for ICE now.

I mean, so the combination is very bad.

These are not people who are,

into disciplined law enforcement on the streets of our cities and, you know, being respectful of both citizens' rights and immigrants' rights.

It puts the lie, as Andrew Egger argued in this morning's warning shots.

I mean, I think even if Trump were sort of sincere about the de-escalation thing, which I don't think he is, these agencies have a momentum of their own now.

It's not as if they're not doing stuff elsewhere.

We've seen stuff on videos online that are pretty horrifying.

The thing for me that really strikes me is they love breaking windows.

Their first reaction seems to be if someone's in a car and is a little confused about whether he or she is being asked to get out or whether maybe she should pull over first or whether she doesn't have to get out, they bash in the passenger side or the driver's side window.

And this is true not just in cars, but it seems to be true in houses.

And now it wasn't there at home.

car dealership or some kind of dealership in Utah, of all places, where they just, they love breaking glass.

That has not historically been a good predictor of like lawful and respectful and behavior that's respectful to citizens, certainly to minorities, right?