Todd Lyons Goes off on Jasmine Crockett Bad-Mouthing ICE

Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons tore into Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Fox News Monday after she compared the agency to “slave patrols.”

Crockett compared ICE to “slave patrols” during a radio interview Friday.

In an appearance on “The Will Cain Show,” Lyons said Crockett’s rhetoric puts lives at risk.

“It is disgusting, and I really hate to even give any satisfaction to that, but that is the rhetoric that is getting my officers and agents hurt every day,” Lyons told Will Cain. “Assaults up more than 100%. We just had an officer have to use their weapon for somebody trying to hurt them and kill them with a vehicle.”

Lyons reminded critics that American law enforcement predates ICE by centuries.

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