J.D. Vance

That's true even after the 700 drawdown.

Most of them are protecting the immigration officers from the mob that's forming around them.

So as we get more and more cooperation from Minneapolis and from the state of Minnesota, and we are starting to get real cooperation from them in a way that we haven't, we don't want people there doing effectively police work so that they can protect our immigration officers.

We want the immigration officers to go and do their work.

And if they get into a problem, they can call local police.

As that happens,

I think you're going to see some of that law enforcement shifting to the local police, which is exactly what we wanted.

And by the way, well before the Freddie shooting or the Renee Good shooting, that's what we were asking.

Because if you look even in very blue places like Memphis, Tennessee, or a number of other cities, you see the system working as it should.

An immigration officer goes in, arrests an illegal alien.

That person gets processed and deported.

And if, God forbid, you have a mob forming, the ICE officers can call the local police and say, hey, these guys are threatening us.

They're harassing us.

They're maybe even assaulting us.

The reason why Minneapolis was so chaotic is because we had to have all these extra officers doing the job the local police wouldn't do.

If the local police are willing to step up a little bit, I think that's a good thing, not a bad thing.

And, you know, I don't want to give this talk of surrender because I know that we haven't surrendered.

But if they're in Minnesota doing the very thing that they said they refused to do, I don't think that's a surrender on the part of the Trump administration, especially as we continue on immigration enforcement.

Yes.

So, you know, I supported E-Verify legislation when I was in the Senate.