Legal AF by MeidasTouch - ICE Insiders Blow the Whistle on Trump Disaster

Episode Date: June 22, 2025

Insiders at ICE are coming out against the Trump Administration, reporting low morale and that they are being diverted away from going after criminal migrants for deportation, because Trump and Steven Miller have them focused instead on making 3,000 arrests a day. Michael Popok explains how even right-wing media is calling out Trump’s deranged policies, including that ICE is already $1 billion over budget, and they are making arrests in Home Depot and 7-11 parking lots instead of going after the really bad people. Dose: Save 30% on your first month of subscription by going to https://dosedaily.co/LEGALAF or entering LEGALAF at checkout. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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arrests per day quota. The Stephen Miller quota. Go down to 7-Eleven and Home Depot and pick up anybody you find quota. And now we're seeing the impact. ICE is $1 billion over budget. And while they're focused on going, as Stephen Miller said, to 7-Eleven and Home Depot parking lots,

you know who's not at Home Depot parking lots? The felon criminal migrant, the ones that are transnational gang members, the quote unquote gang bangers. They're not hanging around Home Depot looking for work, and the ICE agents are being distracted and diverted from going after what Tom Homan, the border czar, calls the worst of the worst are being deported.

No, they're not. This 3,000 a day arrest quota is undermining national security and being used by Donald Trump to go after blue states to try to undermine them to continue his theme of MAGA is in favor of law and order and blue and democrats are in favor of lawless migrants. That's all we're watching. One billion over, morale down, and more importantly, the real criminal element among the undocumented are being ignored by ICE. We're not ignoring you. You're on MidasTouchNetwork and Legal AF. I'm Michael Popock. Let's get down to this new reporting coming out of Axios and other reports about what's really going on at ICE. I even saw some reporting at the New York Post

owned by Rupert Murdoch, which criticizes Donald Trump, 3,000 arrests a day policies. How'd we get here? Donald Trump said he was gonna do the greatest deportation program in history. Instead, they're doing a cosplay diverting resources like the Marines like the ICE agents, in the particularly the ICE agents who are going after the worst of the worst, they're not going after the worst, the worst,

they're going after low hanging fruit, I hate to call people that, especially given the, the given the imagery of that phrase, but they're going after the most vulnerable migrants who frankly just want to work and be left alone, pay their taxes and find a dignified path to citizenship. How about instead of arresting 3,000 people a day, destroying the morale of ICE, going $1 billion over budget.

Here's a new idea. Why don't you do something that hasn't been done in over 40 years? Why don't you propose a dignified immigration policy and plan? Give people a legitimate path to citizenship. Don't deport them. They're the ones that are doing the dirty jobs.

It'll decimate, as Donald Trump has recently recognized. The farm industry, the hospitality industry, the construction industry, the food industry. Why do that? Why not just let them remain here but give them a path to citizenship? And if they are criminals, why don't you focus your resources and ICE and their ability to go after the worst of the worst. That is a much cheaper and better proposition and more humane than what they're doing now, which is the greatest mass deportation in the history of America. With what organization? With what agency? With what money? What they should be focused on is what they they claim at these infrequent press conferences presided over by Pam Bondi, which so we got them.

We got them. Tren de Aragua, the transnational group. We're under an enemy invasion that's been going on for over 10 years, led by Venezuela against America to hollow us out from the inside. Go after the real criminals. Go after the real dangerous, felonious element

within the migrant community. They exist, I'm not blind. These aren't rose-colored glasses, I get it. But listen to the vocabulary of the Trump administration. We're gonna go after sanctuary cities. There's no sanctuary cities in the heartland. Where are sanctuary cities? They're in New York, they're in Chicago,

they're in Detroit, they're in California, in Los Angeles, they're in blue states because we see the benefit of diversity, equity and inclusion. We see the benefit of a vibrant, diverse, migrant class. This country is built on immigration. It's built on Ellis Island

and the aspirational goals of Emma Lazarus poem at the bottom of the Statue of Liberty. But for Donald Trump, his family came here wealthy from Germany. If you're white and rich, well, here's a golden visa. Here's a golden opportunity to work in America. But if you're brown and black, or maybe poor on the way in for the American dream is foreclosed to you. And if you're already here working in the shadows, and you haven't yet been pushed so far underground, you barely can survive, then we're going to arrest you. And if you go to Home Depot to try to get work to support your family, and we're going to arrest you. And if you go to Home Depot to try to get work

to support your family, then we're going to do easy pickings. It's at Home Depot in 7-Eleven. Those are Stephen Miller's words, not mine. And what is the impact on the policy and the goals of ICE, which now have been distorted and warped by Donald Trump? The reporting from inside. We're getting a lot of insider resistance testimony if you

will against this Trump administration. It's one of the leakiest administrations I've ever seen. I've been around for a long time. I have followed many many administrations. As a young boy in short pants, I listened on the radio and television to the Nixon hearings, the Watergate hearings. Yes. And I was only eight. So I've been following this for a long, long time. The inside resistance is starting to leak out. When the New York Post runs an article counter to Donald Trump's immigration position, you know there's issues. When Joe Rogan, a bro podcaster

who helped get Donald Trump elected, comes out, looks MAGA in the eye and say, you guys are crazy, you're depraved, you're disgusting. You're okay with mothers being separated from their babies who are US citizens and put in cages? So when you lose Joe Rogan and all of his followers on immigration issues, when the polling shows that America hates,

and hate is a strong word, but it's appropriate here, hates your immigration policies and that your underwater, your unfavorability rating has now jumped up to negative 20 points, the lowest in the history of polling for Donald Trump. If you don't think that your immigration policies are having an effect on your and your party's electoral fortunes,

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slash Legal AF or entering Legal AF at checkout. That's D-O-S-E-D-A-I-L-Y dot C-O slash Legal AF for 30% off your first month subscription. And now the reporting as I'm doing here coming out is that not only is Donald Trump blowing a billion dollars of your money, not only in that big, beautiful budget bill that in its current form is never gonna get passed, not only buried in it is another $5 billion for ICE,

not only is Homeland Security had to divert away from Homeland Security projects, money to send to ICE to fulfill Stephen Miller's sick fantasy of 3,000 arrests a day, making you and me less safe and secure. They're taking money from places like New York, which is target number one for bad people that want to hurt America We're about to step into a war back our way into a war with Iran

We're letting Israel wag the dog We're letting Israel dictate American foreign policy All right, and I'm pro-Israel, but I can see the creep of walking into a war. And we're gonna do that, creating a new group of enemies, reanimating an old group of enemies, and then we're gonna leave at the same time our major American cities vulnerable?

Donald Trump talks about the heartland. You think the next time one of the terrorists attack America, they're gonna bomb a cornfield in Iowa or Nebraska? Or are they gonna go after a building in New York? Donald Trump is supposed to be the commander in chief. His secretary of homeland security is supposed to protect the homeland. And yet they're just diverting all this money

for this cosplay, chasing other human beings through Home Depot and 7-Eleven parking lots, through churches, through schools, through courts, through hotel lobbies and kitchens and factories all around America, primarily in blue states, because let's be frank, blue states are the givers, and red states are the takers. Do the math. Where's the economy being driven? In America? Where's the tech economy being driven? Which

states what color are they? Who has the highest levels of literacy, lowest levels of infant mortality and poverty, and the rest, who has those? And who's got the worst infant mortality, the worst literacy, the worst health care? What's what color are those states? Who's the giver? And who's the taker? And if anybody out there, you can leave it in my hot take, anybody out there thinks that by diverting money from Homeland Security to give to ICE

to help destroy their morale because they're not able to do the investigations they need to take the really worst of the worst off the streets while they're chasing parking lots in Home Depot after other human beings. If anybody thinks that is what you voted for, that makes America stronger. And that is a priority,

that should be a priority for this administration. Put it in your comment. I'll continue to follow it all right here on the MidasTouch Network and on Legal AF. Slide over to Legal AF, the YouTube channel, hit the free subscribe button as we get, we're gonna get this weekend, to over to Legal AF, the YouTube channel, hit the free subscribe button as we get, we're gonna get this weekend to 700,000 subscribers, but only because of you, only because of your help.

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