Eric Holder

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The Best People with Nicolle Wallace · Eric Holder: Institutions Have Failed Us, the American People Have Not · 2 Feb 2026 podcast

But sweeping in, you know, I remember it was a waitress in Illinois.

I'd been here for like 20, 25 years doing nothing other than her job.

And yet she gets rounded up ultimately because of community involvement was placed back.

But that's not a good use of limited resources that we have.

And it certainly is not who we say we are as a nation.

Yeah, I mean, our view was that borders have to mean something.

And there are ways in which people can present themselves at the border, make their case for entry into the United States, and we would follow those rules.

But for people who were here and who had committed violent crimes, you go again through the processes, through the immigration courts, make your case.

And in those cases that we presented, we were overwhelmingly successful in getting people out of the country.

And to the extent...

that you wanted to focus on other people.

We focused, again, on those people who had been here relatively short periods of time, had not established really significant community ties, and again, went through the immigration courts and then had them removed.

But we also expanded, when I was attorney general, what was a legitimate basis to

seek entry into the United States to include, for instance, women who were the subjects of domestic violence in their home country.

So political asylum, domestic violence, there were a number of ways in which people could come into the United States.

But at the end of the day, you know, we still have a broken immigration system.

And, you know, we had a proposal by a very conservative Oklahoma senator, Republican Senator Lankford, that was being considered.

People on the progressive side, the Democratic side, had to gulp to say that we would support that.

But that was at least a way in which we could have normalized, regularized that which we are dealing with now.

And what happened?

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