Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons suggested that Democratic New York Rep. Dan Goldman take a trip to the Holocaust Museum for likening federal immigration agents to Nazis.
The two sparred during a House Homeland Security hearing Tuesday with top Trump administration immigration officials. It comes after the fatal shootings of two anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis.
One of the shootings involved ICE agents, including one who was seen on video appearing to be hit by a car before he fired shots, killing the driver, Renee Good. Weeks later, a Border Patrol agent fatally shot Alex Pretti, who was seen on video days before, kicking in the taillight of federal agents&#8217; car and spitting on one of the officers.
Goldman compared ICE agents to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, sparking Lyons to condemn the premise of his question in tying it back to his agency.
The Democratic congressman demanded more time to question Lyons, saying he spoke &#8220;unnecessarily.&#8221;
That&#8217;s when Lyons intervened and told him to go to the nearby Holocaust Museum.
&#8220;Sir, the Holocaust Museum is down at 14th and Independence, if you wanna go see Nazis, that&#8217;s what it is, not the men and women of ICE that are out there doing it everyday,&#8221; Lyons said, adding: &#8220;So to say that the men and women of ICE are gestapos is wrong.&#8221;
Lyons said that terms like &#8220;gestapo&#8221; and &#8220;secret police&#8221; are contributing to a surge in attacks on ICE.
&#8220;The problem is you have it backwards, sir. People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are unAmerican and outright fascist,&#8221; Goldman said. &#8220;So I have a simple suggestion: if you don&#8217;t want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one.&#8221;
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Rep. Goldman tells Acting ICE Director Lyons that Democrats calling ICE the &#8220;Gestapo&#8221; and &#8220;secret police&#8221; is justified because it is what they are seeing.
&#8220;People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are unAmerican and outright fascist.&#8221;
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— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) <a href="https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/2021268690415583373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2026</a></blockquote>
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ICE currently faces a more than 1,000% increase in assaults and a roughly 8,000% surge in death threats, Lyons said.
Most recently, federal immigration agents have faced violent attacks from anti-ICE agitators in the streets of Minneapolis. Overnight, local authorities arrested 54 protestors, according to Lyons.

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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem slammed a Democrat congressman over his advocacy for a deported illegal alien, charging that he has set out to “fight for a terrorist” instead of the people he was elected to represent.
Noem and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) got into a heated spat during a meeting of the House Homeland Security Committee Wednesday morning, in which the Democrat advocated for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old deported Salvadoran illegal alien with suspected ties to MS-13 who is believed to have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-suspected-maryland-man-of-getting-paid-to-traffic-illegals-body-cam-footage-shows?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Police+Suspected+%E2%80%98Maryland+Man%E2%80%99+Of+%E2%80%98Getting+Paid%E2%80%99+To+Traffic+Illegals%2C+Body+Cam+Footage+Shows">engaged</a> in human smuggling. Earlier this year, the Trump administration designated the MS-13 gang as a foreign terrorist organization.
Goldman pressed Noem on DHS’s deportation of Abrego Garcia and the agency’s response to a Supreme Court order requiring the government to “facilitate” the return of the illegal alien from his home country of El Salvador back to the United States, despite not being a citizen or legal resident of America.
“What steps have you taken to return Mr. Abrego Garcia to allow him to get due process?” Goldman asked Noem, who explained that “Abrego Garcia is in his home country” before being interrupted by the congressman.
“It&#8217;s got to be extremely discouraging to be one of your constituents,&#8221; Noem continued. &#8220;To see you fight for a terrorist like this and not fight for them is extremely alarming to me, and I’m sure it is to them as well.”
Goldman’s advocacy for Abrego Garcia, who allegedly bragged that he could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-darling-maryland-mans-wife-he-bragged-he-could-kill-me-and-get-away-with-it">murder his wife</a> and get away with it, comes after Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-headed-to-el-salvador-on-mission-to-bring-gang-member-back-to-america">flew to El Salvador</a> to visit the illegal alien.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) blasted Goldman after his exchange with Noem, charging that “there is nothing Democrats love more than defending the cartels, the criminals, and the rapists.”
Greene and Goldman faced off earlier in the hearing after the Democrat objected to Greene’s request to file a post from Attorney General Pam Bondi highlighting Abrego’s alleged MS-13 ties in the Congressional record. Greene laid out the various entities that established Abrego’s ties to the criminal gang in response to Goldman’s unsuccessful attempt to keep the post from Bondi out of the Congressional Record.
“A Maryland County Police Gang Unit agreed that he is MS-13, a reliable confidential informant agreed that he is MS-13,” Greene noted. “ICE officers agreed that he is MS-13, an immigration judge agreed that he is MS-13, an appellate board agreed that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, your Maryland man, is MS-13.”

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Leftist New York Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman posted a video on X in both Spanish and Chinese in which he advised immigrants of their rights under the law, but also seemingly implied that the Trump administration would take those rights away.
“Every New Yorker has rights when they interact with immigration enforcement,” Goldman wrote, then warned, “No matter what the next four years bring, stay informed, stay safe, and stay together.” In a statement at the end of the video, he said, “The next four years may look uncertain, but one thing is crystal clear: You and everybody have rights under the law that no president or law enforcement officer can ever take away.”
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每一位纽约居民在与移民执法部门互动时都享有权利。 
无论未来四年带来什么变化，请保持信息灵通，注意安全，团结一致。<a href="https://t.co/HjQgRzBzNv">https://t.co/HjQgRzBzNv</a> <a href="https://t.co/idZfFChEaN">pic.twitter.com/idZfFChEaN</a>
— Rep. Dan Goldman (@RepDanGoldman) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDanGoldman/status/1887183670546493921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Goldman began the video by saying, “The Trump administration has carried out deportations, raids, all across the country, including here in New York City. These are certainly uncertain times.”
On his <a href="//9A7D374D-9028-4D2B-8459-73B1247647B4/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, Goldman advised immigrants that “If You Believe Your Rights Were Violated&#8230;Write down everything you remember, including badge numbers and patrol car numbers, what agency the officers were from and contact information for witnesses. &#8230; File a written complaint with the agency’s internal affairs division or civilian complaint board.”
On Wednesday, Goldman, who is a constant critic of President Donald Trump, referred to the president and Elon Musk, <a href="//9A7D374D-9028-4D2B-8459-73B1247647B4/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wailing</a> &#8220;the president and his unelected billionaire master are gutting every single executive branch agency.”
Roughly three weeks ago, Goldman <a href="//9A7D374D-9028-4D2B-8459-73B1247647B4/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">railed</a> against Trump’s Cabinet picks, calling Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel “so obviously dangerous.”
In November 2023, on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki,” Goldman said of Trump that he had to be “eliminated,” asserting that Trump’s rhetoric was “really getting dangerous, more and more dangerous&#8230;. It is just unquestionable at this point that that man cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy, and he has to be, he has to be eliminated.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepDanGoldman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepDanGoldman</a>: &#8220;His rhetoric is really getting dangerous&#8230; It is just unquestionable at this point that [Trump] cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit. He is destructive to our democracy. He has to be eliminated.” <a href="https://t.co/9hS6NHlOB5">pic.twitter.com/9hS6NHlOB5</a>
— Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1726287783424143713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Goldman later apologized, <a href="https://x.com/danielsgoldman/status/1726595276289581288">writing</a> on X, “Yesterday on TV, I mistakenly used the wrong word to express the importance for America that Donald Trump doesn’t become President again. While he must be defeated, I certainly wish no harm to him and do not condone political violence. I apologize for the poor choice of words.”

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