JD Vance

So while I can understand the perspective of somebody who doesn't want to see an arrest happen at their place of work, I can also understand the perspective of our immigration enforcement officers

who have to do their job and can't allow a heckler's veto over our immigration enforcement.

And so much of what's gone wrong is the failure to do that.

And here's the point.

We can do a good job of enforcing our immigration laws without the chaos, but it actually requires the cooperation of state and local officials.

If you look at blue cities and blue states, red cities and red states, you go to Austin, Texas or Memphis, Tennessee,

You go to the state of Texas, obviously a very red state, or the state of Tennessee, a very red state, but you've got blue cities within those states, 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 that I would rather us not have.

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.

We have a criminal migrant who is a sex offender.

And let's say that we've got to go and arrest that person who, Democrat or Republican, wants a- Cops, cops, that's who arrest that person, not ICE.

And try to find where this criminal sex offender is today.

The local authorities have been told, do not cooperate.

So these guys are trying to go out and enforce the law.

They're trying to arrest sex offenders, but they're trying to do it in an environment where local officials have been told, do not help them, do not provide intelligence about where these sex offenders might be.