ICE director refuses to resign under pressure from Eric Swalwell not to 'side with killers'
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Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons refused to resign when Representative Eric Swalwell demanded he quit during a heated House Homeland Security Committee hearing Tuesday.
Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
Near the close of his questioning, Swalwell told Lyons that continuing to lead ICE is a "choice" and highlighted his preceding decorated military and law enforcement career. He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant.
"You are what I would call ‘otherwise employable’. I think most people would agree this is not the only job that you can get. But since you've been on this job, women have been dragged by their hair through streets. A 6-year-old child battling stage-four cancer has been deported. And it turns out he was a U.S. citizen," Swalwell claimed. Charles covers media, politics and culture for Fox News Digital.
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