Michael Knowles

We all agree on that.

We're all sick of it.

And when you say this is totally unacceptable and

But there is that old maxim from systems, which is that the purpose of a system is what it does.

And the fact is we can complain until we're blue in the face.

But if the incentives of the system are such that the incentives and the disincentives are such that the congressmen don't have any real power to do it and that they might even be able to get away with proposing a mass amnesty bill in 2026 and they might not even suffer political consequences for that.

You just think, OK, there's a structural problem here.

that needs to change.

This is why, by the way, to your point, Matt, I had the same reaction, again, as someone who before, during, and after was quite skeptical of the Iran strikes and argued against it.

I do actually get why Trump is doing more stuff in foreign policy than he might be able to get done in domestic policy.

That said, there have still been, what, over 700,000 deportations formally in the first year, another million or more self-deportations, which we can track on a

multiple levels.

So there was something.

We all want 10 million deportations.

We want 15 million deportations.

But the reason he's playing more in foreign policy is actually because there are no district judges in Bahrain.

The reason he's doing it is because he has a lot more control to actually affect things in foreign policy than he does in domestic policy.

You can say that's a terrible system.

I agree that it is.

But they're the ones who actually have to go out there and do the things in the political order.