Drew Harwell

And so we went to DHS and ICE and told them what we had.

They wouldn't confirm or deny the document, which is pretty classic for them.

They wouldn't dispute any of the claims we had pulled out from it.

But what they said was, we're thrilled that the Post is highlighting how successful this campaign has been.

Their argument has been that

This strategy is working.

You know, their goal in the document was we want to hire 14,000 new people.

And so their argument is this model is working.

We're ahead of schedule.

We're under budget.

We're getting hundreds of thousands of job applications in.

We've put out 18,000 job offers.

So, you know, and they're, you know...

The patriotism and the machismo and some of the stuff that they've been criticized on, they're very proud of that.

They feel like this is an ad campaign that they feel like Americans will support, that they have a mandate from the voters to lead this massive deportation operation.

And so, yeah, they feel like what they're doing is right and they're proud to do it and they're getting all the right people in.

ICE is part of the Department of Homeland Security, which was started after 9-11.

It has always been a let's protect Americans agency.

Immigration is a component of DHS, but so is protection from a lot of other stuff, right?

Cyber attacks, TSA, FEMA, natural disasters.