Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said on Sunday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are “doing the Lord’s work” as the agency faces criticism over its tactics.
“I think the ICE agents are doing the Lord’s work. They’re doing what the president promised the American people he was going to do when he ran for the job and was elected in a big way,” Jordan told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”
“So, I think they’re doing their duty. What’s interesting is the pushback they’re getting in these sanctuary jurisdictions and these ICE-free zones, where many times they’re coming to — they’ve sent a detainer to the facility, and they will release the person to the streets, the bad guy to the streets, and won’t work with ICE at all.”
In the first few months of his second term, President Trump’s administration has heavily cracked down on immigration, using tactics and methods that have drawn a lot of criticism from Democrats.
On Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin supported an ICE officer who shot a pastor with a pepper ball in the wake of a video of the incident going viral.
Videos of the late September incident, which were spread widely this week on social media, featured the Rev. David Black of the First Presbyterian Church getting hit in the head by an officer outside an ICE processing facility in a suburb of Chicago. It resulted in anger toward federal officers who have been deployed to the Windy City by Trump.
“What this clipped video doesn’t show is that these agitators were blocking an ICE vehicle from leaving the federal facility—impeding operations,” McLaughlin said on the social platform X.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Colorado and migrant advocates on Thursday filed a lawsuit against three administration officials, alleging that federal immigration officers were breaking the law by arresting migrants in the state.
