Fox News’ Sean Hannity clashed with Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna on Thursday over the Democrats’ rhetoric against Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE).

Hannity presented a 16-page list of illegal immigrant criminals arrested by ICE in Minnesota, who committed crimes such as rape, aggravated assault and drug possession. He confronted Khanna for not condemning Democrats who compare agents to Nazis and for not standing in solidarity with families who lost their loved ones at the hands of illegal immigrants.

“Why don’t we lower the temperature in this country, lower the rhetoric, figure out how we enforce immigration laws, but not have ICE agents shooting Americans,” Khanna said. 

“How about you let ICE do their job and you support law enforcement and enforcing the laws of this land? … Your party is out there demonizing them calling them Nazis, Gestapo, fascists, and terrorists,” Hannity said. “And that has created an… Your party and you up to tonight never… I looked, I’ve never seen you condemn the rhetoric of the leaders of your party calling them Nazi, Gestapo, fascist. That is inciting and dehumanizing these officials. And they’re now being attacked tonight.” 

Khanna then criticized Republicans for labeling illegal immigrants “rapists and murderers,” prompting Hannity to point out that Khanna did not stand for the families of Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray during President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress in March 2025.

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“Have you condemned the rhetoric of, have you condemned the rhetoric of Republicans who call immigrants rapists and murderers? I mean, come on, there’s excessive rhetoric on both sides,” Khanna continued. 

“Some of them are murderers and rapists. And you didn’t get off your ass when it came to Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray when you were at a joint session speech,” Hannity said. “Why not? You could have stood up for their families and you should be able to put out the names of the people that were murdered. You should care about getting rid of pedophiles, murderers, rapists, traffickers, gang members.” 

A Venezuelan national released into the U.S. under former President Joe Biden’s administration killed Riley in February 2024 by causing blunt force trauma and asphyxiation. In June 2024, Nungaray was raped and strangled by two illegal immigrants and dumped in a river in Texas.

Democrats have used inflammatory rhetoric against ICE, including Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who said in May that agents are Trump’s “modern-day Gestapo.” Democratic Oregon Rep. Maxine Dexter stated on Jan. 8 that ICE is spreading “terror, chaos and cruelty” throughout the U.S. in response to a shooting that involved Border Patrol, not ICE.

Khanna argued that ICE agents need to conduct their operations constitutionally rather than kill American citizens like Renee Good, who got shot by an agent after she hit him with her car. Footage showed Good refusing officers’ orders to exit the vehicle while she blocked the road and instead accelerating her vehicle forward, which hit the agent who shot her. Her wife, Rebecca, could be heard shouting, “drive baby, drive,” from the passenger side.

The agent in question, Jonathan Ross, suffered from internal bleeding to the torso in the aftermath of the shooting.

Another ICE agent got assaulted with a snow shovel by three illegal immigrants during a traffic stop, prompting the officer to shoot one of them in the leg.

Assaults against ICE agents have surged 1,300% since Jan. 20, 2025, and vehicular attacks have risen by 3,200%, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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