ICE acting Director Todd Lyons during a June 12 press conference
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Secretary I'm Todd Lines. I'm the acting ICE director. Also, I'm the uh national incident commander for the situation, but I would just like to say thank you to Secretary Nome.
She said it best. U there's really not much more I can say. It's without her leadership that we wouldn't be out here conducting this mission.
President Trump fully has our back on this one and we're doing the will of the American people. I want to thank the brave men and women of ICE, HSI ERO our our attorneys with the Office of Public Legal Council because without them, this would not be possible. They put their lives on the day on the line every day.
Appeal to Prejudice The phrase 'will of the American people' implies that the speaker's actions represent all Americans and that those who disagree are outside the in-group — for example: "we're doing the will of the American people".
Loaded Language The word 'brave' is an emotionally charged descriptor applied to law enforcement to generate admiration and frame the actions as heroic rather than simply professional — for example: 'brave men and women of ICE'
Appeal to Fear Emphasising that officers risk their lives every day creates an emotional appeal designed to generate sympathy and deflect scrutiny of the actions being taken — for example: "They put their lives on the day on the line every day".
You also see my fellow agency heads here with me and many that are not up here on stage. The men and women of law enforcement have been putting themselves in harm's way every night since we've been here in Los Angeles. What we've done here is taken a whole government approach for this immigration mission.
You know, under the last administration, there was millions upon millions of people that we are don't know who came into this country that were led in that now have turned violent criminals. Also, we have known suspected terrorists and gang members. Since January 20th, we've been making arrests in Los Angeles and all around the country.
But specifically, we've focused on gang members, human traffickers, violent drug dealers, and rapists. You know, the secretary brought it up. You know, the the rhetoric of a lot of elected officials and people what really caused this?
We've heard so much. If ICE had a criminal warrant, if ICE had a judicial warrant, cities would cooperate with us. On on this past Friday, you saw that you saw the men and women of ICE and these other DOJ partners executing a criminal warrant on a criminal immigration enforcement case.
Yet, the city turned against us and we had violent protesters. And that just won't happen because the men and women of ICE won't be deterred by this. We're going to be out there every day conducting our law enforcement mission.
No protesters are going to block our way because the brave men and women of ICE and these DOJ partners you see up here along with our partners with the Los Angeles Police Department are going to ensure that we handle these protesters but we are out there safely conducting these operations and we will get the worst the worst off the street and I also like to thank the Department of Defense and National Guard who has come here to assist us on that. You know, we will will prosecute all these cases. Just, you know, the secretary highlighted highlighted so many.
You see them up here. But we have a wanted man from Mexico who fled and hit hid in Los Angeles for killing a woman. You have MS-13 gang member who killed two individuals during a botched catalytic converter uh theft ring case.
These aren't the individuals you want in Los Angeles. These aren't the individuals you want in the United States. ICE is going to keep doing their job and we're going to do it to our best of our ability with with our DOJ partners.
But with the with the sec secretary's leadership and the full support of the US attorney to prosecute these criminals, we will continue enforcing the immigration mission that President Trump and the American people expect us to do. So with that, I'm going to turn over to the FBI. Big
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