Bill Kristol

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

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.