But it would be less messy, maybe for the mayor. I don't know. There'd be less people able to visibly get in the way, obstruct arrests and detentions. So They had started a couple of weeks earlier, grabbing people who had showed up for their immigration court hearings just like they were supposed to, and arresting, detaining them completely, lawlessly. It's come out now, almost a year later, that they never had the authority for these arrests. (03:59–04:13)
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