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Jan. 24, 2026 - Sean Hannity Show
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ICE Under Fire: Law Enforcement, Politics, and a Dangerous Double Standard
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ICE Under Attack 00:11:50
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If you want to be a part of the program, well, look at the numbers.
You have President Trump, Secretary Noam, Tom Holman unleashed ICE to target the worst of the worst criminal illegal immigrants.
Thus far, the administration has deported roughly 600,000 people from the country, with roughly millions more self-deporting, over 2 million now, which I thought was one of the more brilliant ideas that they had.
I thought of it myself before they did it.
But anyway, Friday, for example, ICE was able to catch MS-13 gangbangers, convicted rapists, and murderers.
President Trump, Secretary Noam unleashed ICE to get the worst of the worst.
And these are the type of thugs that they are getting off the streets out of our country every day.
70 plus percent of all ICE arrests are of criminal, illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime.
Now, the worst thing is it just keeps getting worse and worse by the day.
And Democrats, they've been complaining that ICE is arresting American citizens while omitting the truth and the fact that those citizens often were arrested for assaulting ICE agents.
An illegal alien accused of raping a 14-year-old girl with autism on New Year's Eve in the sanctuary state of California has been arrested in connection with that rape.
Minneapolis judge who nicks charges against Don Lemon has ties to this ICE-hating Attorney General, Keith Ellison, the leader of last Sunday's Minnesota church invasion had ties to the Minneapolis Democratic Party power structure.
I mean, this is just well, you know, organized.
And look at all that they've done to ICE.
They are doxing these agents.
They're going after these agents.
I mean, and they're making their lives miserable.
They have this app across the country that gives people a heads up that an ICE raid may be happening, which takes away the element of surprise, which puts them in jeopardy.
Add to that the reckless, insightful, dehumanizing rhetoric that has created this notion that the ICE is Nazi-like, Gestapo-like, fascist, et cetera.
ICE also captured two illegal alien child rapists in Washington state and in Oregon.
An Ohio man arrested for threatening to kill ICE agents.
And this is what these guys are dealing with every single solitary day.
And it's just sad.
I got to give credit to American First Legal.
They announced that they will provide legal representation to U.S. Immigration's Customs Enforcement Agency and officers and agents who have been unlawfully defamed, targeted, falsely accused in the wake of this violent anti-immigrant enforcement riots that have been going on.
You know, for example, encourage, if this is not the most reckless rhetoric of this idiot governor, Timmy Walls, Mr. Masculine himself, I don't know, you know, the guy that wanted to give taxpayer-funded college tuition to illegals.
He ran with a running mate that wanted taxpayer-funded sex change operations for illegals.
Listen to Timmy.
Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live.
They're pulling over people indiscriminately, including U.S. citizens, and demanding to see their papers.
And if you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record.
Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans.
And it just gets worse from there as a compilation of many of these elected officials.
We have residents that are asking the very limited number of police officers that we have to fight ICE agents on the street.
You are not powerless.
You are not helpless.
And you are certainly not alone.
All across Minnesota, people are learning about opportunities, not just to resist, but to help people who are in danger.
The deployment of thousands of armed mass DHS agents to Minnesota has done our state serious harm.
This is, in essence, a federal invasion of the Twin Cities and Minnesota, and it must stop.
There's little I can say, again, that'll make this situation better, but I do have a message for our community, for our city, and I have a message for us.
To ICE, get the f out of Minneapolis.
We do not want you here.
Well, listen to the results.
People hear these so-called leaders, and what is the result of their reckless rhetoric, their insightful rhetoric, their dangerous rhetoric.
Well, the reported assaults against ICE officers from January 20th to December 31st of 2025, a whopping 1,340% increase compared to the same period in 2024.
DHS also reporting a 3,200% increase in vehicular attacks against ICE officers in the same time period.
And there's an over 8,000% increase in threat levels against ICE agents.
And then you have states like the Sanctuary State of California.
They don't even want to give ICE the option, in spite of being doxxed and threatened and attacked, to remain anonymous so they can protect themselves and their families.
Well, now American First Legal is doing something about it.
They're going to represent these ICE officers who have been unlawfully defamed, targeted, and falsely accused.
Gene Hamilton's the new president of American First Legal.
Thank God for what you're doing.
Thanks for helping these brave men and women.
I find what they're doing is going.
I think, I pray to God I'm wrong, but I think they're going to have blood on their hands for what they're saying and what they're doing.
And they are whipping people's minds into a frenzy.
Sean, well, thanks for having me on.
You're exactly right.
Look, here's the deal.
They are trying to dehumanize these agents and officers, these brave law enforcement officers who are trying to protect the American people so that the crazies, and they know that this will happen, the crazies will go out there and attack these ICE officers and agents.
Listen, for me, this is personal.
It's professional.
It's the right thing to do, but it's also personal.
I worked for years at ICE as an attorney.
I know what these guys and gals go through.
I know the stakes that they face.
And here's the deal.
The American people have every right under the First Amendment to protest, to state their disagreements, to peacefully say, you know, look, we don't agree with this policy.
If they want to go hold a protest somewhere, that's fine.
No one is saying that people can't do that.
But what you cannot do, you cannot defame somebody.
You cannot dock.
You cannot assault.
You cannot impede.
You cannot conspire with other Americans or other people, generally speaking, to stop ICE officers from carrying out their lawful duties.
These men and women have legal rights too.
You don't get to put out their private personal information about them and their families with the intent that someone will cause harm to them.
You don't get to make up lies about these people, call them Nazis, impugn their reputations, and expect that you're going to have no liability for what you say and do.
So we're stepping up because we want to be there for these people who have no one else there to help them.
Of course, the government, the Department of Justice will have their backs in any kind of criminal proceedings and any kind of things that they ever tried to do there.
But we are trying to go above and beyond that to help these people get the legal representation that they deserve.
They can't, what people don't understand.
And, you know, my mom was a prison guard.
They don't get paid a lot of money.
My mom worked double shifts her whole life.
She was a heavy smoker, but she ended up dying young as a result.
I think she worked herself to death, to be honest.
And it's just sad that, you know, she, I mean, she was the valedictorian of her high school class.
She could do the New York Times crossroad puzzle in Inc and finish it every time.
A brilliant woman.
And she didn't have money for college.
Her parents were immigrants from Ireland.
They were dirt poor.
And law enforcement was respected back in the day.
My dad was a family court officer.
And he, too, they had respect for officers in the day.
The few little times, just little, nothing major, you know, that maybe I had a little run-ins with the police and they knocked onto my door at my house when I was a young kid.
It was, thank you, officer, you have nothing to worry about.
We will be handling this immediately.
Thank you so much.
We appreciate it.
It was just a different era.
How do we get to this point that law enforcement is viewed as the enemy?
I would argue it's institutional demonization that has caused a lot of this.
Yeah, you're 100% right, Sean.
Your parents, I am sure, were proud patriots and are just the models of any kind of law enforcement officer or any kind of American who comes here and works hard and provides for their family.
And I know that they were so proud of you in everything that you have done for this country.
Look, you are right.
You are 100% right.
This is about demonizing institutions.
This is about demonizing ICE.
Because ICE is in the way of their ultimate objective.
The ultimate objective of so many of these groups and these agitators and these people is to cause harm to our ability to deport the millions of people that Joe Biden let come into this country over the last four years.
Because what they want is not just about the presence of these people here.
They want this for voting purposes.
They want these people here for all kinds of different purposes so that they can shift control.
They can continue to drive fissures, cracks in the foundation of our society so that they can seize power.
So ICE is the entity that is there to help return people home, to send them back to where they came from when they have come here in violation of law, when they've come here and commit crimes, when they've come here to do all kinds of other things.
They are law enforcement officers.
They are here doing their jobs that Congress asked them to do.
They are deporting criminals.
They are deporting murders.
They are deporting child molesters.
And these are the people that the Democrats are standing up for.
And so we cannot have this as a society.
This cannot continue.
Things must change.
The American people must stand behind ICE.
Well, they have to, but I'm so glad that you're doing that.
Now, how is it American legal is able to fund all of this?
I mean, I'm not really sure where you get your funding from.
I assume probably generous people, no?
Yeah, Sean, look, we're funded by donors, proud Americans across this country, tens of thousands of Americans who recognize that the fight for justice requires committed public interest legal organizations like ours who are willing to step up and provide free legal services to the individuals that we serve.
And so in this case, we are providing these services to ICE officers and agents.
Gavin Newsom's Controversies 00:05:23
There's a million other things that we do from defending parents and helping parents fight radical transgender ideology in schools to challenging the flawed census in 2020.
There's a million different things that we're up to at the same time simultaneously.
And it's all thanks to the donations and the support of proud Americans across this country.
Yeah, well, I thank you for what you do.
I really do.
And I know I speak on behalf of my entire audience.
I really do.
And thanking you for what you're doing every day.
These guys need help.
They need support.
All right.
Let us, well, before we get to our busy vote, Linda, have you been watching, you know, our old buddy, Gavin Newsom, making an ass out of himself all over Davos?
I mean, I'm almost embarrassed for him.
I mean, his blind political ambition on display every second of every day.
I mean, he's now become the psycho, you know, full-time Trump stalker.
He's a full-time podcaster, a full-time tweetie bird.
And then you look at the state of California and it is the worst-run state by far in the country.
They've got the highest income taxes, the highest sales taxes, the highest gas taxes.
I mean, they have the highest homelessness rate.
They've got the, I mean, and Gavin laid out his plan, I think in 2012 or 14, my plan to cure homelessness.
Maybe it's 2010.
You know, well, it's gotten worse.
It's the worst in the country.
They've got massive, massive budget deficits in spite of the high taxes because of the sanctuary state policies in the Pacific Palisades.
I mean, here we are over a year later.
Now, remember that Santa Ana wins are predictable events in California.
Wildfires are predictable.
They don't practice the science of forestry.
Number one.
Number two, they had fire hydrants that had no water.
They had reservoirs that had no water.
And here it is over a year later.
And you have people that can't get a permit to build their home and they can't get a resolution with their insurance company.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
And this guy, you know, does nothing to help fix his state and the mess that he created.
You know, I feel more and more confident that if Gavin Newsom is the Democratic nominee, once the country learns of his record and hears him in his own words, oh, and by the way, I will be reminding people every day.
Linda, you think I'm good at that?
I will take that record and I will drive a truck through it.
And I'll make sure every American knows full well what they'd be electing if they ever wasted their vote on that guy.
I am super excited about what he said about all the illegals that he has on healthcare because during that whole fight to get illegals off healthcare, it was every Democrat representative saying that doesn't happen.
Illegals are not on healthcare.
That's not a true story.
And the Republicans were saying, you 100% promised illegals benefits.
That's why you want them to vote.
That's why you want them here.
It's all a big scam.
And then he went up in front of the WEF.
He's like, I'm so proud to be one of 16 states to give, you know, health care regardless of your immigration status.
I'm like, oh, okay.
So the thing that never happens is happening in 16 states and you just admitted it on stage.
So Gavin is all pissed off because the administration has been, for fun, trolling him being irrelevant in Davos.
And Gavin responded to the moderator reading the Trump administration insults towards him.
Listen.
I want to read you a couple of things the U.S. government has said about you in the last 24 hours or so.
The U.S. government, You put it in the middle of the middle.
The Treasury Secretary described you as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken, the White House Communications Director.
That was this.
That was the U.S. Secretary of Treasury.
I have a couple more, and then you can respond.
The White House Communications Director called you Gavin Newscomb and an official White House account, the federal government account, described you with a very online sexual slur that people here probably don't want to hear at 8:30 in the morning.
And you're, in some sense, responding in kind.
It's like, well, you're not going to be able to do that.
Do you think, should you?
I mean, is that kind of discourse from you, from them, good for America?
Oh, it's deeply unbecoming.
Come on, of course it is.
It's not what we should be doing.
But you've got to point out the absurdity.
Now, the guy that really tore him up, maybe the guy I would have suspected last is Scott Besson.
I mean, you know, Scott Besson's a pretty mild-mannered guy.
He's done a great job in the economy, his Treasury Secretary.
And listen to Scott Bessett, and he just tore Gavin up big time.
Listen to this.
I think Gavin Newsom may be cracking up with some of these things he's saying.
I think he may be over his hairdo.
And being on the national stage is very different than being governor of California with no signature achievements, but to say strange things like President Trump is a Tyrannosaurus rex.
Eight Degrees and Ice Storms 00:06:15
What the hell does that mean?
I could say Gavin Newsom is a bronosaurus with a brain the size of a walnut.
And if he brought the knee pads, maybe that was for his meeting with Alex Soros.
I don't know.
You know, anybody that wants to beat up Gavin is great.
You know what I think I'm going to do tonight on TV?
Because I, well, obviously we're going to cover this weather.
You ready for all the snow and cold weather you're about to get up there?
You're going to get you guys are getting hammered.
I'm really worried about the middle of the country with the ice.
I think that's the thing that scares me is those poor people in Texas and Georgia, Carolinas.
I'm worried about those folks.
Oh, I mean, like Tennessee and Kentucky are going to get hammered.
I mean, now this all starts, I guess, Sunday morning, early in the morning on Sunday, where I am.
We'll have a low of 70, high of 82.
Monday, a high of 82, but a low of 55.
That's cold.
That's too cold for me.
And if you, you're hating this, Aren't you?
You're hating every minute of it.
Meanwhile, let's look at Sunday in New York.
95% chance of snow.
And I love Mondani.
He goes anywhere between 3 and 16 inches.
Oh, why don't we just narrow it down a little bit?
Anyway, so Sunday, you have a low of 13 degrees and a high of 24, and you've got all the snow.
We talked to Joe Bristardi earlier in the program today.
Monday, 12 degrees low, 27 high.
Tuesday, 21 degree high.
Friday, 17 degree high.
Oof.
You know, look, everybody makes choices in life.
And for those of you that choose to stay in high-tax and bureaucratic New York and, you know, live in Momdani land and Kathy Hokaland, I don't feel sorry for you.
For the rest of the country, I feel really sorry for you.
Do you think people hate me when I say that we're going to have a high of 80 degrees?
I think they don't like that.
Is that just being a jerk or what?
That's being a total jerk.
I don't, I mean, right now, all kidding aside, I think it's great for the folks that aren't affected, but I am a little bit seriously concerned about the ice storms and the folks in Texas.
I am too, by the way.
Scary.
Let me let me give people some advice.
And we talked about this earlier with Joe Vistardi.
All right, seriously.
And I do care about people.
I don't want when I lived in Atlanta, once a year, usually you'd have an incident.
They called it black ice.
It would be asphalt and you wouldn't even see it.
And your car, I mean, your car could, you can't get traction on that kind of ice.
You don't see it.
And a lot of horrible accidents would happen that way when it happened.
And, you know, I'm urging everyone to stock up, but don't be, don't be greedy.
It's only going on a couple of days.
Just get the stuff you need that will get you through the period when you're going to have snow.
Maybe, maybe four or five days.
You know, get enough to eat for that period of time, whatever you need, whatever you might need for your kids.
And then I would hunker down.
I would, you know, make sure you make sure everything's working.
Your heat's working, all that sort of thing.
You have fire, you know, if you have a fireplace, make sure you have wood inside so you can light a fire and watch some TV, good football games this weekend, and just chill.
My advice is to stay home.
And if you, you know, like in the TV business and radio business, everyone, I'm sorry, we got to work.
And my team always manages to make provisions.
And I won't tell you what we do.
There have been many times we'll put people up in hotels.
And this way they can get to work easily and not put them in harm's way.
It's still cold, but you choose to live in the cold.
So I just want everyone to put safety first.
If you don't have to drive, don't drive.
If you don't have to go to work, you can work from home, work from home.
You know, get the provisions you need today before this thing hits.
All right.
Please, you know, be careful.
Don't mess with mother nature.
Be smart.
That's my, that's my serious advice.
Okay.
Does that sound better than me bragging about 80 degree weather?
I think it's a lot better.
Yes.
Well, you know what my heart is.
Of course.
That's why I said I was like, I know you're being funny, but you know, we're just, we want to make sure people have batteries and water and you're just being safe because there's a lot of elderly out there, folks with animals outside.
When you get two feet of snow in Pennsylvania where you are, when that happens, I want you to do me a favor.
When you put on your bathing suit and you race out in the snow to your master spa, I want that on video.
And then we're all over Hannity social media.
I don't know that I'm going to be doing that.
It is going to be eight degrees.
It may be even too cold for me.
No, no, no.
If you had any courage, you'd do it and make a video of it.
And I'm not talking about you going out in your bathrobe.
I'm not talking about your bathing suit.
I'm telling you right now, that is not happening on Monday, bro.
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Anthony From Michigan 00:04:04
As we say hi to Anthony in Michigan.
Anthony, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hello, Sean.
How are you doing?
I'm good.
How are you doing?
I'm doing good up here in Michigan.
We're getting ready for the snow.
In fact, I wish I had a bumper hitch like you used to.
Anyways, I was calling.
By the way, I was great at it.
I had fun at it.
It's kind of like skiing.
I know it sounds dangerous, but it never was dangerous for me.
There was only one of our friends that one day, you know, his leg slipped.
He was, and he broke his leg.
He got rolled over on.
But, you know, nobody really got hurt.
We just got yelled at by the old ladies.
Get off my bumper.
Anyways, I was calling about your mad Canook, your mad Canadian yesterday.
He spilt this Tim Hortons in his lap or what.
But I grew up in Detroit.
I'm from Canada, from Prince Edward Island.
I was adopted and I came to Detroit.
And I now live south of Port Heron, a little town called St. Clair.
And I see the abuse from Canada left and right.
I mean, when I was growing up, there was a Byron McGregor.
He was a Canadian radio guy.
And he did the Americans back in 1973 about how nobody treats us properly, nobody takes care of us, and how we're so generous and compassionate to other countries.
And the Canadians, they abuse us left and right.
They just, the guy says that they can be without us.
You know, they had the fur trade back in the 1870s, 1860s.
So when Hudson Bay closed that up, they kind of came over to our side of defense and they abuse us left and right.
They're dumping trash over here.
No, the worst part is, is Canada were putting all these tariffs on our dairy products and our farmers, and they've been treating us like crap.
And meanwhile, there is no Canada without the might of the United States military.
We do protect them.
That's just a fact.
And if anything happened, I know our Canadian friends, maybe they don't like Donald Trump challenging their Primadonna prime ministers one after another that are horrible.
But I'm going to tell you something.
What we do for them, you can't even, it's incalculable.
We provide for their defense and they know it.
And we're not asking for anything, just a little bit of appreciation.
And in the case of when they were putting tariffs on us, which Donald Trump put a stop to, you know what?
Just stop abusing us.
That's not the way friends treat friends.
Now, with all that said, I want to be best friends with Canada.
I love the people of Canada.
Canada gave the world hockey probably more than any other country.
I think they represent hockey.
Some might argue Russia.
I argue Canada.
And, you know, I'm a big hockey fan.
And, you know, but hating on the United States when we do so much for them that they don't ever think about is frustrating to me.
And it really got frustrating when they were booing our national anthem.
That stopped, thank goodness, but I don't want to, I don't want to boo their national anthem.
I mean, the people of Canada, look, they've adopted socialist policies, this idiotic climate change agenda.
They don't build out their own national security to the extent that they should, considering where they are geopolitically on the globe.
But with all that said and done, they can be our best friends, but don't abuse our friendship by taking advantage of us.
Now, listen, I have no ill will towards the caller yesterday who eventually hung up on me.
I have no ill will towards the people of Canada.
I wish all of them the best.
I just want them to be good friends, good neighbors, and stop trying to take advantage of the U.S.
It's that simple.
Appreciate the call.
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