DHS fires back at Senate Dems over ICE detainee death claims: 'Trying to twist data'

"There has been NO spike in deaths. Consistent with data over the past decade, death rates in custody are 0.00007%," she said.

"As bed space has rapidly expanded, we have maintained a higher standard of care than most prisons that hold U.S. citizens, including providing access to proper medical care," she said. "For many illegal aliens this is the best healthcare they have received their entire lives."

"This holiday season, ICE is working around the clock to ensure silent nights and safer streets," DHS said in its announcement.

On Friday, DHS said that ICE had arrested illegal immigrants across the country whose criminal records include burglary, robbery and aggravated kidnapping. Homeland Security declared the latest defendants to be some of the "worst of the worst."

A spokesperson for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

Fox News Digital's Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.