Democrats’ Immigration Unity Tested in Homeland Funding Fight

Well, I mean, Tom, you're right to sort of point out things also like the Coast Guard when it I mean, basically the whole idea is sort of internal security against external forces. That's really what I was I saw. I see.

And I'm doing it what Homeland Security was supposed to do. And and the justification for homeland security was communication, that there were people who thought that the 2001 tragedy was a failure of communication across independent agencies that didn't talk to each other. And so if you were in the same Cabinet department led by a single secretary, you're going to talk to each other and you'll be better coordinated.

And that would make the country safer. That was the rationale. And so this is what it was always supposed to be, internal security, but against external forces.

So the question is, do you think people have been living here for ten years or 15 years are the external enemy? And that's what the demonstration is arguing. My oldest cash flow.

I'm in Shanghai having a beverage of my choice at a peace hotel with cash flow. And and Wendy, he's explaining to me the police state of China like the three or four levels of police officers on the streets of Shanghai or wherever, have we become China with our domestic enforcement? I don't think across the country we become China.

But I think if you're living in cities where you used to walk down the street and they were police officers that you knew your local town or your county and maybe a state, as we call them in Rhode Island, on the highway, you accepted that. That's part of what you expected. You don't expect mass people with machine guns on the street that can stop you and ask you who you are.