Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-China) gets shut down by acting ICE director Todd Lyons during a hearing on Tuesday. Credit: CNN screenshot
Rep. Eric “Fang Fang” Swalwell (D-China) was left humiliated today after trying to con the director of ICE into throwing in the towel when an inconvenient fact was pointed out to him.
As CBS News reported, the House Homeland Security Committee held a hearing focused on the activities of ICE in the wake of last month’s fatal shooting involving two leftist activists and the partial drawdown of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis.
ICE Director Todd Lyons and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott, and Joseph Edlow, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), all appeared at the hearing to testify.
When it was his turn to question Lyons, Swalwell had 5-year-old Liam Ramos in the background as a prop. As TGP readers know, Swalwell, his fellow Democrats, and the media amplified a wicked hoax story alleging that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “detained” the child during an arrest operation in Minnesota.
In reality, his illegal alien father abandoned him on the street as he fled immigration enforcement.
The father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, had been ordered deported by a federal judge back to Ecuador, his country of origin.
The congressman started off the interrogation by complimenting Lyons’ career before rattling off a series of what he considered abuses by ICE and misconduct by Lyons’ bosses at DHS.
Swalwell then demanded to know whether Lyons would fall on his sword and quit ICE over the hoax. Not surprisingly, Lyons said no.
When Swalwell asked why, Lyons left the congressman red-faced after pointing out the facts of the Ramos case.
The committee then moved on to other questioners.
WATCH:
SWALWELL: You now have a decision. Will you stand with the kids who you are supposed to protect, or will you side with the killers who are bringing terror to our streets?
Mr. Lyons, will you resign from ICE?
LYONS: No.
SWALWELL: Why not?
LYONS: Because, sir, that child that you’re showing right there, the men and women of ICE took care of him when his father abandoned him and ran from law enforcement.
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