Jonathan Blitzer
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first heard Jul 2026
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And so it's like, here we are again.
And this was supposed to be part of a kind of a rebranded effort inside DHS under Mark Wayne Mullen, a secretary, to kind of be, I guess, more discreet in how it conducted its operations.
But it's inevitable when the imperative is to make
a huge number of arrests where agents who are totally unaccountable are driving around in unmarked cars.
I mean, this is following a period of 10 days in which ICE officers made 10,000 arrests across the country.
That's 2,000 arrests a day nationwide.
It's an extremely high number.
I don't want to say it's inevitable that these sorts of things happen, but frankly, given how this campaign has been unleashed and the lack of accountability, this is what we're going to keep seeing.
It's an unspeakable tragedy.
I saw that Atlantic piece as well.
And in many ways, that documents something we would have expected.
I mean, it's really valuable reporting that as part of the general recruitment push, ISIS hired, what, 8,000 new agents in a very short span.
And they've rushed them through training.
They've cut training time in half.
And so this demonstrates, at the very least, a lack of preparation, the fact that people who are unqualified to do this work
are getting these jobs and that they're being rushed through and put out immediately on the street tasked with something that, frankly, ICE has never really been tasked with doing before, certainly not at this scale.
So that's a recipe for disaster.
Then, as you say, there's, at least until recently, certainly in the case of Minnesota, a big part of that wasn't just ICE agents.
It was Border Patrol and CBP, Customs and Border Protection agents, on these roving patrols across the country.
That's where Greg Bovino, the infamous Greg Bovino, was.
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