There's this idea that this force is being built with lots and lots of people.

There's a major recruitment effort.

It seems mighty ideological.

The requirements to be an ICE agent are basically nothing at this point.

It feels like he's building a police force of his own.

100%.

And this is what should really concern people, because ICE is kind of between what you think of as your local law enforcement and the U.S. military. They are a militarized force. I mean, we've seen them show up in force. They're totally unaccountable. They're wearing masks. They don't coordinate. I mean, I'm from Los Angeles. They don't coordinate with local and state law enforcement before they go on these raids.

And now they're going to be more funded than the vast majority of militaries around the world.

You talk about authoritarianism.

This is just something that you only see in kind of extreme, securitized authoritarian states,

where you essentially have a militarized force operating domestically that is only accountable to itself and to Donald Trump. From everything we hear about this, it kind of reports

up through Stephen Miller to Donald Trump personally. And so we're talking about tens of thousands

of heavily armed people going out into American communities deporting people. What people

should watch here is mission creep. Does ICE start to have, I mean, the thing that is so scary

about the Washington piece is that has nothing to do with immigration and customs enforcement.

If ICE is going to be a part of that. And I'm sorry to have a pretty haunting analogy,

you know, but this is kind of like, you know, the S.A.

Right. Like that we saw in Germany. The idea that you essentially have a militia that is

answerable only to and accountable only to the leader, in this case, Donald Trump.

And so this is, this is something that we all have to see is kind of, I think, the most

dangerous manifestation, because this is new in America.

We're not used to having a militarized federal security force on our streets.

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