Nicole Malliotakis

Look, I think the president and the administration recognizes that the tactics that ICE was using have not been popular, regardless of where you sit on the spectrum.

I think people who wanted to see strong border control

enforcement, we achieved that, right?

There's no more border crossings.

People are not being released in the country.

The border has been secured.

Municipalities like mine who had migrant gangs and drug traffickers and criminals wreaking havoc, that has been cleaned up.

Those individuals are being deported.

But I think when they see the aggression of ICE, there is a concern there.

And now ICE

ICE has really no choice but to go in the municipalities and fine these perpetrators.

Why?

Because these local municipalities are not cooperating.

New York City is not cooperating.

Minneapolis is not cooperating.

We used to be able to have ICE in Rikers Island, and they would take the criminals directly from there upon release from jail and go into federal custody.

Bill de Blasio unfortunately changed that.

This mayor wants to continue having that policy of no cooperation.

And so ICE has no choice but to go into these cities and find these individuals, which makes it less safe for the officers, for the community, for the immigrants.

But I should remind people, when they were in Minneapolis a couple weeks ago and this happened, they were arresting immigrants.