Trump ICE Chief On Fox: Dems ‘Demonize’ Agents As ‘Nazis’ and ‘Gestapo’
Todd Lyons, President Donald Trump’s acting director of ICE, lambasted Democrats like Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D) for comparing ICE agents to Adolf Hitler’s stormtroopers in Nazi Germany, saying it was “disgusting” and put federal agents at greater risk of being attacked.
Lyons rebuked Pritzker and other Dems during an interview with Kayleigh McEnany on Saturday in America on Fox News.
“We need to stop all the rhetoric,” Lyons said. “ICE is doing a law enforcement mission, that’s what we’re sworn to do and that’s what we’re signed up to do. We don’t want to be doxxed, we don’t want our families threatened, we don’t want assassination attempts.”
He then pointed to the deadly shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas last month, where the anti-ICE shooter killed two detainees.
Lyons said he cannot believe that so soon after that attack, where the shooter was found to be using an app to track ICE agents, prominent Dems like former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) are promoting websites and apps to “unmask” federal agents.
“They want to demonize us, call us Nazis, call us Gestapos,” Lyons said. “But yet, all across the country, we’re arresting public safety threats, foreign terrorist organizations. Yet they want to demonize us at every turn.”
McEnany added she was sickened by Lightfoot’s push to obtain identifiable characteristics on ICE agents, including their height, hair color, and weight, saying it sounded like a “hit list.”
Lyons’ appearance on Fox News comes after Pritzker compared the Trump Administration using ICE and Border Patrol agents to arrest illegal immigrants to Hitler rounding up Jews and other minorities in Nazi Germany earlier this week.
“This is how authoritarian regimes do it. They create these kind of fake ideas that there’s an enemy out there and it could be sitting next to you at one of these tables. So just somebody sitting at your table that you don’t like might be one of those enemies,” Pritzker said on Tuesday. “So let’s round them up, let’s make sure they are the subjects of the laws that we’re passing, because we don’t like who they are. That is what authoritarian regimes do.”
McEnany also played Lyons a clip from Pritzker’s interview with Bret Baier on Thursday, in which Prtizker said ICE agents were “literally racial profiling.”
Lyons told McEnany that is false, as well as the claim that ICE is carrying out raids on a whim.
“They talk about raids in Chicago. We don’t do raids — it’s targeted enforcement operations. Oh yes, governor, we had criminal warrants, yet, you’re still putting targets on the brave men and women of ICE.”
Watch above via Fox News.
