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The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday blasted anti-ICE activists while flanked by families whose loved ones were killed by illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons emphasized his agency\u2019s role in cracking down on crime during a press conference about the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) office, which provides resources to the victims and families of crimes committed by illegal immigrant offenders. The office was previously shut down under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to say on a personal note that the families you see up here I\u2019ve become really close with. They\u2019re part of the ICE family, but when ICE officers and special agents are demonized, called Nazis, hated \u2026\u201d Lyons said. \u201cWe do it for these individuals, these families who are no longer with their loved ones because they didn\u2019t get the justice they deserve. And that\u2019s the main reason why ICE and our law enforcement partners are out there, so these Angel Families will finally get justice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The families standing behind Lyons praised ICE and the Trump administration\u2019s mass deportation campaign.<\/p>\n
At one point, Angel Mom Agnes Gibboney, who legally immigrated to the United States from Hungary, told reporters: \u201cI love ICE,\u201d adding: \u201cI love ice in my water. I love ice in my drink. I love ICE on the streets to protect us all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gibboney\u2019s son, Ronald Da Silva, was shot and killed by a previously-deported illegal immigrant gangbanger in California in 2002.<\/p>\n
\n.@ICEDirector<\/a> Todd Lyons standing in front of angel families:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen ICE officers and special agents are demonized, called nazis \u2026 We do it for these families, who are no longer with their loved ones because they didn\u2019t get the justice they deserve and that\u2019s the main reason\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/BPk7quy17u<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014 Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) April 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
After dismantling the VOICE office, the Biden administration replaced it with the Victims Engagement and Services Line, a service that allowed illegal immigrant detainees to report abuse in ICE detention centers while also providing updates on immigration cases to their lawyers, CBS News reported<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n
Illegal immigrants could also use the service to obtain visas if they were victims of human trafficking or other crimes in the United States.<\/p>\n
Trump established the VOICE office in his first term and reopened it in his second term.<\/p>\n
Since then, more than 500 victims have reached out to the office for help, according to its website. Roughly 55% of the reported crimes committed by illegal immigrants involved assault, rape and sexual assault, and homicide or manslaughter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n