Scott Bessent

She is a great ally, great relationship with the president.

And when Japan is strong, the U.S.

is strong in Asia.

Well, again, I just described to you what I said about Alex Bredy, which is that he's a guy who showed up with ill intent to an ICE protest.

So, if this hypothetical leads to that hypothetical leads to another hypothetical, will I do a thing?

Yeah, absolutely.

It's a great question.

And thanks for asking it.

Civil immigration enforcement is the standard routine immigration enforcement that ICE has engaged in for decades.

Immigration to the United States and immigration out of the United States tends to be a civil matter.

Now, there are criminal penalties associated with violating those civil matters.

So if you come into the United States illegally, you've committed a crime.

If you come into the United States after being deported again, you have committed a crime.

There are lots of other crimes that are associated with it.

But generally speaking, immigration is a civil function of the federal government.

And so what happens is that you have a system that's built in the executive branch to handle this.

Where you have ICE within the Department of Homeland Security, they conduct arrests, they detain aliens in the United States, and they handle deportations.

There are cases, if they have a case that's being heard in immigration court, people have heard about the immigration court,

backlog, all kinds of different things.

Those are actually Department of Justice lawyers who are functioning as judges who are adjudicating the cases.