House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, August 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu/Getty Images)
He then demanded the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) be held "accountable for the overreach and the extremism that they're being subjected to in terms of what the American people are experiencing."
"And yet we're seeing none of that accountability coming from Republicans," Jeffries continued. "That's unfortunate, but Democrats will continue to make the case to the American people that this is all abnormal. So much of it is unlawful, and it's got to stop."
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White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital in response, "ICE officers are facing a 1,000% increase in assaults because of unhinged rhetoric from activists and Democrat politicians smearing heroic ICE officers. Anyone who assaults or otherwise harms law enforcement officers will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law."
ICE agents look over lists of names and their hearing times and locations inside the Federal Plaza courthouse before making arrests in New York, June 27, 2025. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images)
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Jeffries' comments come after Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said the panel would be launching an ICE "tracker" to keep tabs on "incidents" the agency is involved in.
But House Committee on Administration Chair Bryan Steil, R-Wis., whose panel would have jurisdiction over materials used by Congress, ruled that out.
"The House of Representatives absolutely will not maintain a website that tracks or doxes ICE agents," Steil said in a statement.
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