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The Clowns Who Broke the Border Now Want to Lecture You About ICE

Their names are Blas Nuñez-Neto and Adam Jentleson, Democrats in the wilderness pretending to be insiders.

Pablo Manríquez
Jan 16, 2026
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COLUMN — The memo landed on desks around Washington this week like a ransom note written in disappearing ink. It came from something called the Searchlight Institute, which is what happens when you give hedge fund money to Senate staffers who’ve never met a losing strategy they couldn’t monetize.

The subject: Democrats should stop saying “Abolish ICE.”

The author: Blas Nuñez-Neto, who spent three years as Biden’s border policy chief watching ten million people cross the southern border while insisting everything was “orderly.”

You can’t make this up. The man who presided over the greatest immigration policy collapse in modern American history now wants to give you advice on how to think about immigration enforcement. It’s like getting fire safety tips from the Hindenburg pilot after the crash.

Here’s what Nuñez-Neto won’t tell you in his tidy little memo: While he was sitting in his West Wing office designing the CBP One app—which worked about as well as a screen door on a submarine—ICE a…

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