DHS torches 'bamboozled' Dems for calling ICE crackdown 'vicious lies'

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said she needed to correct the record on such accounts, remarking the agency continues to seek out "criminal illegal aliens convicted of heinous crimes" like aggravated sexual assault of children, child pornography and drug trafficking.

"As Democrat politicians try to bamboozle the American public and assert DHS law enforcement is not targeting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens, our brave ICE law enforcement are putting their lives on the line to remove pedophiles, drug traffickers, and other violent thugs from American neighborhoods," McLaughlin said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital.

"We are not going to allow these heinous criminals to terrorize innocent American children and families." 

McLaughlin then laid out the worst offenders from recent days, including new names provided exclusively to Fox News Digital.

Orville C. Weir, of Jamaica, was convicted of lewd/lascivious acts with a minor in the Fort Lauderdale area, and recently nabbed by ICE.

A Congolese illegal immigrant named Andre Lubala, convicted of aggravated assault near Philadelphia, Tennessee, was also captured by federal authorities, according to DHS.

In their original "fact-check" of DHS, Illinois Democrats branded the agency's public posturing as a "misinformation campaign."

"I am proud to work with my colleagues of the Illinois congressional delegation to set the record straight on the terror and lawlessness that ICE and CBP have inflicted on our communities," Ramirez said.

"My grandchild is scared because their helicopters are hovering at night over our neighborhood. People are being detained and disappeared," Garcia said.

"It is a campaign of fear and intimidation. Federal agents, under orders from the Trump administration, have repeatedly used violence against peaceful communities," Foster said.

In a formerly-red district farther west of Chicago, Democratic Rep. Lauren Underwood added in a statement that DHS is not pursuing the worst of the worst but continuing a "horrifying campaign to spread fear in our communities, trample over our constitutional rights, and violently snatch people from our streets."