Chris Hansen Shares What He Saw After ICE Ride-Along Targeting Illegals Who Threaten Children

Chris Hansen, host of “Takedown,”appeared Wednesday on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” to share his recent ride-along with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), saying the agency is actively getting “criminals out of this country.”

Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the administration has prioritized cracking down on illegal immigration and conducting mass deportations. (RELATED: DHS Calls Out Media ‘Smears’ After Illegal Aliens Allegedly Ram Border Patrol Car)

“In the last month, we have caught 45 predators seeking to exploit children. Seven of those were for a new investigative series we have going on with ICE ERO [Enforcement and Removal Operations]. They go out after these people who are here illegally but have also been convicted of crimes against children,” Hansen said.

“We had one guy who lived — [a] convicted sex offender from Mexico — lived in a home next to a daycare facility and three blocks from a school. And as we’re doing this, anti-ICE protesters are rallying outside ICE headquarters with no idea as to what we just did,” Hansen added as Watters said the activists don’t like ICE outside of schools. “But it’s OK to have a registered sex offender next door to a daycare facility.”

Under Trump’s push for mass deportations, ICE has been conducting raids in major blue cities like Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City. Despite voters in 2024 ranking the border crisis as a top concern under the Biden administration, Democrats have criticized the deportations and defended some of the illegal immigrants.

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In April, Democrats rallied behind alleged MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, demanding the administration bring him back to the U.S. after he was deported to El Salvador. While some Democrats showed support for him online, others, like Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, took taxpayer-funded trips to visit Garcia in El Salvador before he was brought back to the U.S.

Watters asked Hansen about his experience in the field with ICE and whether agents spoke to him about anything specific.

“They are very happy to have their hard work shown. These are dedicated men and women who are trying to get criminals out of this country. We’re not talking about somebody who didn’t check a box here. We’re talking about criminals. We watched in New Mexico one early morning as they arrested a guy who was under investigation for sexually assaulting children in the home at the time,” Hansen said.

“And this guy is in the country illegally. So they’re out there doing this, protecting children, protecting the most innocent asset we have in this society. And they’re proud to show their work,” Hansen said.

Concerns about migrant children under the leadership of former President Joe Biden ramped up in the summer of 2024 after whistleblowers like Tara Rodas testified against Biden’s Health and Human Services (HHS), calling attention to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and the vetting of sponsors for migrant children.

In September 2024, Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General released its August report that said ICE could not “monitor all unaccompanied migrant children” released from the custody of the Department of Homeland Security and HHS  as the U.S. struggled with its border crisis.

Human trafficking experts like President and founder of GUARD Against Trafficking Ali Hopper have continued to speak to lawmakers about the concerns of missing migrant children and sex trafficking in the U.S. In July, Hopper testified to Congress, telling lawmakers the Biden administration allegedly missed 65,000 calls from migrant children to a hotline set up to “report concerns about the unaccompanied child’s safety.”

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