Tricia McLaughlin

And yet those rights were trampled on by these protesters who trespassed and began intimidating these Christians.

The ruling prohibits officers from retaliating against anyone peacefully protesting or observing their actions.

adding the agents must show probable cause or reasonable suspicion that someone has committed a crime or is interfering with law enforcement before taking action.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin says the agents are protecting themselves and the public from dangerous rioters.

Gary Baumgarten, Fox News.

We have incredibly targeted immigration enforcement operations.

So what's happening there is there is reasonable suspicion.

If somebody is in the vicinity of this operation, of this target, then they could be asked for their identification.

Ben, thank you for having me.

We are targeting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.

Ben, we know at least 20 million criminal illegal aliens came into this country over the last four years alone.

So really, our top priority are these gang members, our murderers, our rapists, child pedophiles.

I mean, I just see the reports every single day.

They come into...

piece of paper on my office.

And what we've seen is just flabbergasting as far as the number of criminals who have been allowed to walk around with impunity in this country.

There's been over a thousand known or suspected terrorists that we've arrested in the last year.

3,500 members of Tren de Aragua that we've arrested.

And there's plenty more who are out there.

And that's why we have been flooding the zone to get these individuals out of our country.