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The Department of Homeland Security pushed back against several Democrats over the weekend, saying their claims that ICE crackdowns aren’t focused on the most dangerous illegal immigrants show they’ve been “bamboozled” by politics.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., led a news release featuring Illinois’ Democratic delegation several days prior – in which they objected to DHS’ behavior and their claims of targeting the most egregious offenders in their “Operation Midway Blitz.”
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said she needed to correct the record on such accounts, remarking the agency continues to seek out “criminal illegal aliens convicted of heinous crimes” like aggravated sexual assault of children, child pornography and drug trafficking.
“As Democrat politicians try to bamboozle the American public and assert DHS law enforcement is not targeting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens, our brave ICE law enforcement are putting their lives on the line to remove pedophiles, drug traffickers, and other violent thugs from American neighborhoods,” McLaughlin said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital.
ICE ARRESTS ‘WORST OF THE WORST’ ILLEGAL ALIENS IN LOS ANGELES WHILE PROTESTERS ADVOCATE FOR CRIMINALS: DHS
Sen. Dick Durbin, center, speaks out about Operation Midway Blitz, flanked by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, left, Gov. JB Pritzker, second from left, and Mayor Brandon Johnson, right. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
“We are not going to allow these heinous criminals to terrorize innocent American children and families.”
McLaughlin then laid out the worst offenders from recent days, including new names provided exclusively to Fox News Digital.
Mexican national Cristian Mendivil-Diaz was convicted of aggravated battery of a child and domestic battery in Illinois – while Burmese national Liam San was nabbed in ICE’s latest focus on Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, after a conviction of indecent…
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