ICE official puts politicians on blast, demanding they 'stop putting my people in danger'

Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons demands that politicians "stop putting my radical successful danger." 

In a video, Lyons called retired Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., suggesting that they are fomenting "outrage" astir ICE's work, accusing them of "hurting" radical with "ridiculous rhetoric and inflammatory comments."

During remarks past week, Wu said, "People are terrified for their lives, and for their neighbors, folks getting snatched disconnected the thoroughfare by concealed police, who are wearing masks … who tin connection nary justification for wherefore definite radical are being taken and past … detained."

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images | Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Leah Foley explained the disguise contented successful a video shared online this week.

"Federal agents successful marked jackets and vests are masking their faces due to the fact that radical similar Mayor Wu person created mendacious narratives astir their mission. Federal agents and their children are being threatened, doxxed and assaulted — that it wherefore they indispensable fell their faces," Foley declared.

Wu has adjacent earned a nonstop rebuke from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) X account.

"I don't cognize of immoderate constabulary section that routinely wears masks," Wu said connected Wednesday. "NSC-131 routinely wears masks." When idiosyncratic asked Wu whether she was comparing ICE to a neo-Nazi group, the politician replied, "What I said is that Boston police, and nary constabulary section that I cognize of astatine the section level routinely wears masks."

DHS slammed Wu, declaring successful a Thursday post, "Mayor Wu comparing ICE agents to neo-Nazis is SICKENING. When our heroic instrumentality enforcement officers behaviour operations, they intelligibly place themselves arsenic instrumentality enforcement portion wearing masks to support themselves from being targeted by known and suspected pack members, murders, and rapists. Attacks and demonization of our brave instrumentality enforcement is WRONG. ICE officers are present facing a 413% summation successful assaults."

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Jeffries declared connected Tuesday that each ICE agents who perpetrate "aggressive overreach" and effort to conceal "their identities from the American people, volition beryllium unsuccessful successful doing that." They volition each beryllium identified "no substance what it takes, nary substance however agelong it takes," helium asserted, saying that is what the instrumentality requires.

The House number person made the comments erstwhile responding to a question astir identifying authorities connected with 2 abstracted incidents related to Democratic lawmakers. 

Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., said successful a post connected X past period that "ICE shoved" her.

However, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba aboriginal declared successful a post that her bureau had "charged Congresswoman McIver with usurpation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a)(1) for assaulting, impeding and interfering with instrumentality enforcement."

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Separately, DHS agents "forcefully entered" an bureau and handcuffed 1 of Rep. Jerry Nadler's, D-N.Y., staffers, the lawmaker said successful a statement.

DHS addressed the incident, stating successful a post connected X that "Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers responded to accusation that protesters were contiguous wrong U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler’s District Office successful Manhattan, New York." 

DHS said that "officers were granted introduction and encountered 4 individuals. Officers identified themselves and explained their intent to behaviour a information check, however, 1 idiosyncratic became verbally confrontational and physically blocked entree to the office. The officers past detained the idiosyncratic successful the hallway for the intent of completing the information check. All were released without further incident."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the offices of Wu and Jeffries to petition comments from the politicians connected Thursday but did not person responses by the clip of publication.