DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin on Saturday slammed allegations made by the Senate Judiciary Democrats’ account. (Fox News)
McLaughlin also argued that those held in ICE custody receive appropriate medical care as well as a "higher standard of care" than most U.S. prisons.
"As bed space has rapidly expanded, we have maintained higher standard of care than most prisons that hold U.S. citizens — including providing access to proper medical care," she said. "For many illegal aliens this is the best healthcare they have received their entire lives."
DHS FIRES BACK AFTER DEM LAWMAKER CLAIMS SHE WAS 'PUSHED ASIDE AND PEPPER SPRAYED' DURING ICE RAID
An ICE agent waits in a hallway outside a courtroom at New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)
On Friday, DHS said that ICE had arrested illegal immigrants across the country whose criminal records include burglary, robbery and aggravated kidnapping. Homeland Security declared the latest defendants to be some of the "worst of the worst."
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