Charlie Kirk was a “great champion for ICE,” Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Todd Lyons said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily, one week after the Turning Point USA founder’s tragic public murder.
Host Mike Slater asked Lyons if he ever met Kirk and about the conservative activist’s support of the organization.
“You know, I had the great honor and privilege to do a really long podcast with Charlie in June,” Lyons said.
“When I took the job, he was super supportive. He’s been just such a great champion for ICE. There’s that great video when he’s debating someone on a campus and he’s wearing one of our ICE hats that the officers gave him,” he continued, describing Kirk’s death as “such a true loss.”
“He was a great voice for us. He understood our mission. He knew exactly what we were trying to do. He fought that rhetoric that we’re seeing so much now, of us being called Nazis in the Gestapo, and we had a great conversation about that,” Lyons continued.
“It’s such a terrible loss,” he added. “My heart just goes out to his wife and kids.”
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