Et tu, Brute? Biden’s own ICE director rips him on Fox News

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Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director is leaving his position with tough words for Joe Biden.

“Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade got the ball rolling by predicting changes coming with the incoming Trump administration.

“You guys are going to get a lot of attention. There’s going to be a lot of money flowing your direction and a chance to build up the force. How much is needed?” Kilmeade asked.

The retiring ICE director claimed “a lot” more will be needed.

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“Well, to do what the new administration is proposing and what we’re seeing, you know, because the working for the transition, we’re going to need a lot more people, a lot more resources,” he replied, stating if the department doubles in size it will need double the funding.

“Fox & Friends” co-host Lawrence Jones jumped in to ask the 30-year ICE boss about the “biggest challenge” he faced under the Biden administration.

“It’s always a challenge understanding kind of where the administration wants to go and what their priorities are. And whenever the administrations change, you’ve got to adapt to that, right?”

Lechleitner explained that the rank and file just want to go out in the field and do their jobs knowing they have support from the top.

“It’s just kind of communicating that from the leadership side,” he continued suggesting a lack of support from the Biden admin.

Fellow Fox host Steve Doocy chimed in to ask about presumed changes under Trump and asked Lechleitner what he would say to Biden if he had a ‘do-over.’

“Trump’s priorities are different than Joe Biden’s, obviously. And you were talking about the workforce where, you know, we’ve heard from ICE agents. They were frustrated that they didn’t get to do their job,” Doocy said. “So as the new administration comes in and suddenly removing criminal aliens is going to be a priority. If you had one do-over, or if Joe Biden would have ever called you on the phone and say, ‘P.J., what should ICE be doing?’ What would you say to him?”

“I would have liked to see that executive order they implemented roughly just over a year ago, like that helped a lot. And we could have gotten that implemented a long time before that,” Lechleitner answered. “It would have helped a lot.”

“Why didn’t they do it earlier?” Doocy responded.

“I don’t know. I don’t know. And I’m you know, I execute. I run the agency, I execute, I enforce. But I don’t know why they didn’t do that earlier,” Lechleitner responded. “I know it was in process for a long time. I would have liked to have seen it earlier. I think it helped a lot, it did really help our mission, but I wanted to see that earlier.”