Sen. Dick Durbin, center, speaks out about Operation Midway Blitz, flanked by Sen. Tammy Duckworth, left, Gov. JB Pritzker, second from left, and Mayor Brandon Johnson, right. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
"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.
Mexican national Cristian Mendivil-Diaz was convicted of aggravated battery of a child and domestic battery in Illinois – while Burmese national Liam San was nabbed in ICE’s latest focus on Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, after a conviction of indecent liberties with a child. Other offenders captured included Salvadoran national Guillermo Guevara-Serrano, convicted of aggravated assault on a minor in Dallas.
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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, Tenn., 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."
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"Squad" member Delia Ramirez of Chicago. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)
"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."
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