J.D. Vance

Good afternoon, everybody.

How we doing?

I wanted to meet with business leaders, with ICE officers, with local law enforcement to try to understand a little bit better what's going on so that we can tone down the temperature a little bit, reduce the chaos.

I am sure New York and our entire corridor here is going to be next storm.

When I think to myself, oh my God, this is terrible.

How did we arrest a five-year-old?

Well, I do a little bit more follow-up research.

Did you know that within the last, I think, week or so, maybe even more recently than that, you had a couple of ICE officers who were off duty, who had been doxxed online, who were sitting and having a meal at a restaurant in Minneapolis when a bunch of agitators showed up, locked the door, made them feel like they were in danger for their lives.

And then, of course, it was federal law enforcement officers who had to come up.

lower the temperature on the situation, and actually get those two off-duty officers to a point of safety.

Now imagine if you would your life and your perspective on law enforcement if you can't even go to a restaurant without some agitators locking the door and making you feel like your life is in danger.

That is the environment that has been created.

You go to Austin, Texas or Memphis, Tennessee, you do not have this level of chaos.

The reason why things have gotten so out of hand is because of failure of cooperation between the state and local authorities and what these guys are trying to do.

We have a ton of resources, a ton of ICE agents in this city right now.

I'd love to send those guys home.

They're not even doing targeted immigration enforcement.

They are trying to protect

ICE officers who are doing immigration enforcement because when a crowd surrounds them and these guys call 911, the local officials, the local cops have been told to stand down.

I'm a father of a five-year-old, actually, a five-year-old little boy, and I think to myself, oh my God, this is terrible.