DHS accuses Senate Democrats of twisting data to ‘smear ICE’
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is pushing back against Senate Democrats’ claims that 2025 has become the deadliest year for immigrants in federal custody in decades.
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McLaughlin quickly fired back, accusing Senate Democrats of “trying to distort data to denigrate ICE law enforcement.”
“There has been NO spike in deaths. Consistent with data over the last decade, death rates in custody are 0.00007%,” he said.
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DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin sharply criticized the allegations made in the Senate Judiciary Democrats’ account on Saturday. (Fox News)
McLaughlin also argued that those held in ICE custody are entitled to appropriate medical care as well as a “higher standard of care” than most U.S. prisons.
“As bed space has rapidly expanded, we have maintained higher standards of care than most prisons housing U.S. citizens, including access to appropriate medical care,” he said. “For many illegal aliens, this is the best health care they have ever received in their lives.”
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ICE agents review lists of names, trial times and locations at the Federal Plaza courthouse in New York City. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images)
The response comes just a day after DHS said ICE’s “Christmas gift to Americans” had arrived early as agents took more illegal immigrants with criminal records off the streets.
“This holiday season, ICE is working around the clock to ensure quiet nights and safer streets,” the DHS announcement said. he said.
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An ICE agent stands in the hallway outside the courtroom at New York’s Federal Plaza Immigration Court. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)
On Friday, DHS said ICE is arresting illegal immigrants nationwide with criminal records showing theft, robbery and aggravated kidnapping. Homeland Security said the latest defendants were “the worst of the worst.”
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Fox News Digital’s Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.
