Chris Hansen, host of “Takedown,” appeared Wednesday on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” to share his recent ride-along with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), saying the agency is actively getting “criminals out of this country.”
Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has prioritized cracking down on illegal immigration and conducting mass deportations.
“In the last month, we have caught 45 predators seeking to exploit children. Seven of those were for a new investigative series we have going on with ICE ERO [Enforcement and Removal Operations]. They go out after these people who are here illegally but have also been convicted of crimes against children,” Hansen said.
“We had one guy who lived — [a] convicted sex offender from Mexico — lived in a home next to a daycare facility and three blocks from a school. And as we’re doing this, anti-ICE protesters are rallying outside ICE headquarters with no idea as to what we just did,” Hansen added as Watters said the activists don’t like ICE outside of schools. “But it’s OK to have a registered sex offender next door to a daycare facility.”
Under Trump’s push for mass deportations, ICE has been conducting raids in major blue cities like Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City. Despite voters in 2024 ranking the border crisis as a top concern under the Biden administration, Democrats have criticized the deportations and defended some of the illegal immigrants.
In April, Democrats rallied behind alleged MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, demanding the administration bring him back to the U.S. after he was deported to El Salvador. While some Democrats showed support for him online, others, like Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, took taxpayer-funded trips to visit Garcia in El Salvador before he was brought back to the U.S.