Kathy Hochul

January 19th, 2025.

Can we go in the way back machine to prior to Donald Trump's militarization of this force that's supposed to protect our borders from transnational criminals and terrorists and work with the border patrol to keep our streets safe?

they've totally lost their way.

They've lost the original mission, which is to protect our communities.

And their definition of criminals is someone who left their home country under dire circumstances like my own grandparents did.

They left great poverty.

They were told they had to leave because they would starve.

They came here, became migrant farm workers and worked at factories.

But that's, so people who just come here in search of that life, they're treated as if they're criminals.

And that's just wrong.

And what is happening in my friend Tim Walz's state and in the cities is abhorrent on every level.

It is un-American.

And as I'm continuing to watch again, Ken Burns' American Revolution, and I think about those

Ragtag groups of individuals who banded together as patriots and stood up to this abuse of power and put us on a track to have a democracy that is held strong for 250 years and is becoming unraveled before our eyes.

So we must be the ones who stand up to this and call it out and use all the powers at our lever to fight back.

The whole crew has to go then, right?

If they don't know how to run agencies that have been run for decades before, then ICE was basically established in its current form after 9-11, yes, to protect us from terrorists, and they just don't know what they're doing.

And so we can't have this level of incompetence and an agency that's so important to our society if they did it right.

The way it's done now is just, it's a joke.

So they should clean house, kick their asses out of town and say, we're starting over.