Brad Gerstner

Court ordered removals and deportations averaged 200,000 per year, 1997 to 2000.

That's under Clinton.

200,000 a year.

They average 300,000 a year, peaking at 400,000 under Obama.

right, deportations plummeted under Biden.

At the same time, we know that illegal crossings into this country kind of exploded higher.

And now they estimate that Trump is back to the trend line of 300 to 400,000 illegal, you know, deportations and removals.

These are court ordered removals.

So I might've expected the Trump number to be way higher, given that we just went through this massive step up in illegal crossings.

But I think it's really important to point out that this has been a bipartisan, consistent thing that has happened in this country for 30 years.

I'm not talking about tactics, exactly how it's going on, but the deportations have been going on by both parties and we never, it hasn't been an issue before.

And so it is curious that it is more of an issue now.

And then the other thing I would just underscore is if you look at what Daniel Lurie is doing in the city of San Francisco, he is live blogging on Twitter and Instagram the arrest of 100 fugitives per night.

I think he's had three or four of these nights now in San Francisco to take these people off the street following a mayor that wouldn't even arrest people and no prosecutions because he understands as a Democrat

What citizens expect first is safety.

They want the ability to walk their kids to school, to walk to dinner, to play in a park, and not have to worry about being safe.

So I think, you know, I would build on what Chema said.

I think the smart Democrats are realizing this is a bipartisan issue.

This is what people want.

It's not inconsistent with what, you know, Presidents Obama and Clinton did in their administrations in terms of deportations.