Elliott Williams

But you can't take an entity that was doing 300,000 of a thing and

and then move it up to a million of a thing and then expect that everything's going to be okay.

They necessarily were going to start violating civil rights or hiring people who were not fit for the job or acting in a way far exceeding their authority.

Just do the math.

And my question to everyone is, well, what did you expect?

Like, what did you think when you had the president talking the way he was about immigration before on the campaign trail?

What did anyone expect?

And I don't think anyone...

should be shocked by what they're seeing right now.

Only, again, I just think, I don't think people recognize what it truly meant

to and i've been saying it for a long time and you know you got a problem when someone who worked for ice under obama is saying whoa whoa slow down folks um no i just think when the president was that forthright about what what they were planning on doing when stephen miller was talking about 3 000 arrests a day i think were the numbers that is a staggering number in the history of american law enforcement and

you know, yes, the president has his critics, always has had his critics and his critics were saying, guys, red flag, this is going to be really bad.

But I actually think there were,

Trump adjacent or Trump curious people who did not really stop to think about what the kind of immigration enforcement he was talking about really was going to mean.

And it was going to mean, like I said, the sort of lowering the hiring standards and then just literally sweeping people up because you just can't find that volume of people who are unlawfully present in the country without that kind of hiring.

Yeah, it's a few things.

I think the human cost, again, sort of as I was saying a little bit earlier, I just don't think people who maybe were swing voters who were skeptical of the president but still not happy with the direction the country was going under Joe Biden, I don't think people really thought about what was coming.

So that's point one.

Point two, it's the power of the cell phone image.

And this time, this generation, you know, if the administration is not being fully transparent about how they are carrying out any sorts of law enforcement, particularly immigration enforcement, we just live in a time of people documenting everything.