Steve Hilton

It's just an incredible example of when people say government doesn't work and government, like incredible government action that it just basically stopped, you know, this flow of illegal immigration basically stopped to zero, just with firm action that everyone said couldn't be done for decades and it's just done.

just because there's someone who's really committed to doing it and has a team that was well prepared and did it.

So that's good news.

Then you've got the problem of millions of people here, and no one has an idea how many, who are here illegally.

And...

The whole argument is from the administration, which is the worst go first, right?

We target criminals who are, of course, every illegal immigrant is a criminal in one sense, because they've broken the law by being illegally, but on top of that, another crime.

And Tom Homan, who runs the Borders, is a friend of mine.

I've known him for years.

And he points, he makes this argument, which is that the reason that we have these kind of tough confrontations and the kind of pictures and the video that cause people to be upset and sometimes have provoked protests and violent clashes, whatever, is entirely because we don't get cooperation from the local and state government where we're trying to find people.

And here in California, it's a sanctuary state.

It was a law that was passed in 2017, SB 54, that said you can't cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

So literally, you have someone in jail, in custody in some sense in the system in California who's an illegal immigrant and has committed a violent crime, any kind of crime, and they actively refuse to...

tell ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, that that person's there.

So they could just hand them over and say, here's this person.

So that means that they have to go into the community to find them where they're hiding out.

after they've been released or whatever.

And that is what causes both the confrontation, but also non-criminal illegal immigrants to be swept up in the whole process.

So their argument is, if we had proper cooperation, we wouldn't need any of this.

That's the argument.