00:00Now, to talk about what I am here to do, which is federal law enforcement to enforce our immigration laws,
00:06I want to say just a few things.
00:08First of all, I wanted to meet with business leaders, with ICE officers, with local law enforcement
00:13to try to understand a little bit better what's going on so that we can tone down the temperature a little bit,
00:19reduce the chaos, but still allow us, as a federal government, to enforce the American people's immigration laws.
00:25That is the purpose of my visit.
00:26Now, this is step one or step two of that process.
00:28There's going to be a lot of work that follows through from here.
00:31I'm happy to talk about that, but I think I learned a few things that were very important.
00:34So, number one, one of the things I learned is that the guys behind me are doing an incredible job,
00:40and frankly, a lot of the media is lying about the job that they do every single day.
00:45Now, it doesn't mean that there aren't occasionally stories out there.
00:48There aren't occasionally videos out there that suggest that these guys,
00:51or at least some of the people who work for them, are not doing everything right,
00:55but very often, if you look at the context of what's going on,
00:58you understand that these people are under an incredible amount of duress,
01:02an incredible amount of chaos, and because of a few very far-left agitators,
01:07a lot of these guys are unable to do their jobs without being harassed,
01:11without being doxxed, and sometimes without being assaulted.
01:13That's totally unacceptable.
01:15And that's one of the things that I want to send a message to is,
01:17yes, come out and protest, protest me, protest our immigration policy, but do it peacefully.
01:23If you assault a law enforcement officer,
01:25the Trump administration and the Department of Justice is going to prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.
01:30And I wanted to show some support for these guys who, frankly, are operating in a very, very tough environment.
01:36I heard a lot of stories today about that,
01:38that I think drives home just how chaotic the environment on the ground here has already gotten.
01:42For example, did you know that within the last, I think, week or so,
01:45maybe even more recently than that, you had a couple of ICE officers who were off-duty,
01:51who had been doxxed online, who were sitting and having a meal at a restaurant in Minneapolis
01:55when a bunch of agitators showed up, locked the door,
01:59made them feel like they were in danger for their lives,
02:01and then, of course, it was federal law enforcement officers who had to come up,
02:05lower the temperature on the situation, and actually get those two off-duty officers to a point of safety.
