Rep. Zeldin Slams Dems For Vilifying ICE Agents

Rep. Lee Zeldin harshly criticized Democrats for vilifying ICE agents in order to “pander to [the] radical left for votes.”

Speaking on Sunday’s “The Cats Roundtable” radio show hosted by John Catsimatidis on AM 970, the New York Republican said that “ICE prioritizes going after the worst of the worst. We’re talking about people who are murderers, rapists. They engage in gang activities, sex trafficking, drug trafficking.”

He emphasized that “Whether you are Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, we all as Americans should be coming together to be supporting our great ICE agents so that they have the funding they need.”

Instead, Zeldin contended, the agents “get vilified by some on the left trying to get political wins out of it. They’ll call ICE agents names. I remember hearing some of that come out of Albany with the Governor calling them thugs.”

Zeldin stressed that the ICE agents "shouldn’t have to deal with politicians in Washington trying to vilify them to pander to [the] radical left for votes when they’re kissing their spouse goodbye in the morning… They should know that those around them in government have their backs.”

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