show host ethan bearman. so, ethan, if the job of a sheriff is to keep people in jail, and then the sheriff releases people from jail, isn't that basically aiding and abetting a prison escape? >> well, i mean, if he is releasing them when he doesn't have proper dispensation to do h so, such as somebody hasn't served their time or whatever else, but the sheriff does not have to do the job of i.c.e. and it's actually very funny to listen to conservatives on this one, because it was their very own beloved justice antonin scalia who wrote the majority opinion in 1997 in prince v. united states that says the federal government in no way can force sheriffs to do the work of the federal government. >> jesse: but that is not what is happening in texas. the governor, a state official, is telling a local official what to do. the feds don't have anything to do with that, so that analogy is bogus. alfonso, if the law enforcement community was refusing to