Ex-CIA Slotkin Says Iran War Made Us LESS Safe? Wrong"
Reacting to Sen. Elissa Slotkin at the UChicago Institute of Politics — Iran war, ICE / immigration, gas prices and accountability. I play her clips and answer with the receipts. All sources linked below — go check 'em.
Full source video I reacted to: Senator Elissa Slotkin: Live Recording of America, Actually! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrOaYchwJ4w
WHAT SHE CLAIMED vs WHAT THE RECEIPTS SHOW:
1. "Iran war didn't make us safer" / Trump ignored warnings My take: it degraded their nuclear program and leadership after 47 years of Death to America. War is serious, and this one needed to be finished.
2. "No military option / don't get snookered" My take: deterrence + leverage is the option. A deal that straightjackets them is better than the status quo.
3. "Milking the cow" / guardrails gone My take: the first-term roadblocks are gone, that's why he's moving. Disagree on motive, not on movement.
4. "Go after the enablers" — pick signature cases, make young people afraid to work for Trump My take: that's lawfare to suppress the next generation of MAGA staffers.
5. ICE is going after "innocent immigrants" with "purposeful brutal force," unconstitutional / largest ICE budget in history
My take: ICE targets illegal immigrants. Coming in illegally IS the crime — 8 USC 1325.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325
https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-1911-8-usc-1325-unlawful-entry-failure-depart-fleeing-immigration
Laken Riley Act requires DHS to detain illegals arrested for burglary, theft, assault on officers:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5
Largest ICE budget follows largest illegal wave in history under Biden — ~11M CBP encounters over 4 years, record 269,735 southwest in Sept 2023 alone:
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/04/28/100-days-most-secure-border-american-history
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-01-18-new-data-reveal-worsening-magnitude-of-the-biden-border-crisis-and-lack-of-interior-immigration-enforcement.pdf
ICE funding now — $11.3B FY26 request, $28.7B at its disposal this year after Big Budget Act, up from ~$10B baseline:
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/25_0613_ice_fy26-congressional-budget-justificatin.pdf
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-5674887/ice-budget-funding-congress-trump
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/big-budget-act-creates-deportation-industrial-complex
6. Gas "still above $6" / soldiers "killed every other week" — needs accountability My take: gas spiked because of the war we had to fight. Biden peak was over $5.01 in June 2022, we got it down to ~$3.10 in 2025, war pushed it back up to ~$4.28 now. Small price to end Iran's threat, and it'll come back down.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_gnd_a_epmr_pte_dpgal_a.htm
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2026/10/26/average-gas-price-under-trump-now-tops-average-under-biden/
https://qz.com/trump-biden-average-gas-price-aaa-midterms-102626
https://www.macrotrends.net/4453/us-gasoline-prices
Casualties: Pentagon now reports 21 US troops killed, 865 wounded since Feb 26 start of Iran ops:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/10/10/pentagon-raises-official-toll-troops-killed-during-war-with-iran-21/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/us/politics/pentagon-casualties-iran-war.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/10/10/pentagon-corrects-iran-war-troop-deaths/92196751007/
Compare that ~1 every other week to: Iraq — 4,431 total deaths:
https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/conflictCasualties/oif/deathsAll
Afghanistan — 2,456 deaths 2001-2021:
https://amarkfoundation.org/reports/afghanistan-war-costs/
Vietnam — 58,220 fatal casualties:
https://www.archives.gov/research/military/vietnam-war/casualty-statistics
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