Overview
- The Department of Homeland Security used its official X account to post a Billy Madison quote deriding Maria Cardona after she criticized ICE on CNN and online.
- In the same message, DHS asserted that federal deployments have significantly reduced crime in targeted cities and added, "Locking up criminals works."
- Cardona replied that the agency was being unserious and claimed that 93% of those detained lack a violent criminal history.
- Coverage notes frequent bystander videos of ICE encounters and reports of a video showing an officer shooting a member of the clergy outside a Chicago processing facility.
- ICE spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said people she described as agitators were blocking an ICE vehicle from leaving the federal facility, impeding operations.