Fox Covers Migrant Crime Hearing as MS NOW Slams ICE 'Reign of Terror'

Brad Wilmouth
September 6th, 2026 9:18 AM

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On Thursday's Fox News @ Night, host Trace Gallagher spoke with a California father, Marcus Coleman, whose daughter Dalilah was left disabled after a 2024 car crash caused by an illegal alien who received a commercial driver's license in California. Earlier in the week, Coleman went viral after he appeared in a Tuesday congressional hearing and called out Democrats for their defense of illegal aliens. 

By contrast, MS NOW not only ignored the hearing, but, on Wednesday's All In show, fill-in host Jacob Soboroff allowed Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) to make a lame argument that immigrants actually make communities safer.

After showing a clip of Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) from Tuesday complaining that there have been too many hearings on sanctuary cities,Gallagher brought on his guest and showed a clip of him tearing into Democrats on Tuesday:

I reject your guys' sympathy, to be honest with you. There's no way you guys are sorry. Not one of you guys have ever called me -- not one of you guys have ever reached out to me. (editing jump) You guys do it right here while you guys are grandstanding on top of your soapbox. This is when you guys care -- right here in inside this room is the only time you guys care.

 

 

After giving Coleman a chance to inform viewers how difficult his life had become as he had to find time to work and take care of his daughter each day, Gallagher posed: "What is your goal here, Marcus? What do you want people to learn about your family and about your cause?" Coleman called for a secure border to protect Americans.

Meanwhile, on MS NOW the night before, Soboroff began a segment by railing against ICE's "reign of terror":

After ICE wound down its deadly reign of terror in Minneapolis, the Trump administration tried to convince us that cleaning house would fix the problem. How about border czar Tom Homan in a suit and tie? He effectively took over for Greg Bovino and his military-style costume.

 

 

After noting that Markwayne Mullin was appointed to replace Kristi Noem at DHS secretary, he added:

But to nobody's surprise, Stephen Miller did not want the reign of terror to end. It's just that those negative headlines were getting in the way of his mass deportation scheme exactly like when they deliberately separated 5,500 parents from their kids in the first term in what the American Academy of Pediatrics called "government-sanctioned child abuse." Mark my words, though, what ICE is doing throughout this country is just as depraved as it was before.

The MS NOW host brought aboard Senator Murphy as a guest, and, after Murphy accused ICE of trying to "traumatize" children, the Connecticut Democrat asserted that that illegal aliens have a lower crime rate than do U.S. citizens.

Here's Murphy:

SENATOR MURPHY: The reality is, and I know that Trump and his supporters don't want to hear this, is that immigrants to this country and undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates --

SOBOROFF: That's right.

SENATOR MURPHY: -- than people who are born here in the United States. And so if you want to live in a safe community, live in a community like Danbury, Connecticut, that's full of immigrants. You are not keeping Danbury safe -- you're not keeping communities safe by specifically targeting immigrants because they do not commit crimes at a higher rate than anybody else in the community.

But even the pro-immigration CATO Institute have admitted that the crime rate for illegal aliens was about twice the rate as legal immigrants, therefore proving that there is a value in vetting immigrants before they enter the country.

Soboroff's final question was to ask if Democrats would push to impeach Secretary Mullin as Murphy claimed that the secretary was breaking the law.

The transcripts are below. Click "expand" to read:

MSNOW's All In
September 2, 2026
8:19 p.m. Eastern

JACOB SOBOROFF: After ICE wound down its deadly reign of terror in Minneapolis, the Trump administration tried to convince us that cleaning house would fix the problem. How about border czar Tom Homan in a suit and tie? He effectively took over for Greg Bovino and his military-style costume. That is the guy who had that made-up title of commander-at-large of the border patrol. He seems to have retired to hang out with white nationalists -- white nationalists much of the time. And Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem was ousted and replaced with Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin. 

But to nobody's surprise, Stephen Miller did not want the reign of terror to end. It's just that those negative headlines were getting in the way of his mass deportation scheme exactly like when they deliberately separated 5,500 parents from their kids in the first term in what the American Academy of Pediatrics called "government-sanctioned child abuse."

Mark my words, though, what ICE is doing throughout this country is just as depraved as it was before. Earlier this month, a group of Cuban migrants in Florida were deported to Equatorial Guinea in West Africa, a country that they had never, ever lived in, but which take millions of dollars from the United States to accept our deportees. This week, a Haitian student, a young Haitian student in Springfield, Ohio, a city that has been the target of racist attacks from Trump and JD Vance, publicly died by suicide, according to his family, after being forced to wear an ankle monitor by ICE.

And, in the state of Connecticut in the city of Danbury and surrounding communities, ICE has been snatching dozens of people off of the streets there. We're talking about people going to work or waiting at bus stops. Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal says many of the people targeted by ICE there are likely in the country legally.

The overwhelming majority of them face no criminal charges. And today, over 60 local Danbury businesses are closed in protest of ICE's presence in their communities, with neighbors standing up for neighbors and telling Donald Trump's agents that they are not welcome.

Senator Chris Murphy is a Democrat from Connecticut. He attended those protests today on his annual walk across the state of Connecticut to speak with voters, and he joins me now. Senator, thank you for being here. You were at the protest tonight. Tell me about what's happening in Connecticut.

(...)

SENATOR CHRIS MURPHY (D-CT): There were thousands of people from all over Connecticut in Danbury tonight to say that if ICE is going to be in Danbury to purposely traumatize our children, then they need to get out. 

What's happening in Danbury is extraordinary. It's kind of a new tactic. What we know is that on the first and second day of school, ICE was at the school bus stops. They let the kids board the school buses, and then they arrested the parents. 

SOBOROFF: Jeez.

MURPHY: Now why did they do that? They did that to purposely traumatize the kids because the kids don't know their parents are gone. And when they get off the school bus, at the end of the day, they're alone, abandoned. They can't find their parents. Just imagine what those kids are going through. And as far as we understand, that practice is still continuing in Connecticut.

(...)

SOBOROFF: Let me play you a little bit of what some of my colleagues from MS NOW heard at today's protests.

[Cuts to video]

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: They're terrorizing communities. They're picking up people, following school buses around, picking up mothers, people who have no criminal history, just picking them up. And it really needs to stop.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Danbury is a city of immigrants, okay. The United States is a nation of immigrants. The actions of this administration over the past two years are counter to everything in American history in terms of who we are as a nation. The idea, I think, was that we were supposed to be a country that welcomes people who are looking for an opportunity. We've done that for generations over many, many hundreds of years. And what we are seeing right now is violence, hatred and division. We want to be very clear that organized labor in Connecticut, at least our union and many, many others stand against that type of fear, hatred and division.

[Cuts back to live]

SOBOROFF: Senator, does that sound about right about what you've been hearing from your constituents out there?

(...)

MURPHY: Yes, that's a protest maneuver. But frankly, a lot of commerce has stopped in that city because ice isn't targeting people who are here without documentation. Ice is targeting people who are here legally. And so in a community like Danbury that is full of immigrants, immigrants, even those that have papers, even those that are here legally are staying home. 

(...)

MURPHY: The reality is, and I know that Trump and his supporters don't want to hear this, is that immigrants to this country and undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates --

SOBOROFF: That's right.

SENATOR MURPHY: -- than people who are born here in the United States. And so if you want to live in a safe community, live in a community like Danbury, Connecticut, that's full of immigrants. You are not keeping Danbury safe -- you're not keeping communities safe by specifically targeting immigrants because they do not commit crimes at a higher rate than anybody else in the community.

SOBOROFF: If you all -- the Democrats -- retake control of the Senate come November, would you seek the impeachment of Markwayne Mullin?

SENATOR MURPHY: Well, I mean, listen, we're going to have to have a full-scale investigation of the illegality at that department. And if a secretary is willfully violating the law, as Markwayne Mullin is, then our remedy has to be impeachment. That's a question for the House of Representatives, not the United States Senate. We would try a secretary in an impeachment proceeding, but I don't know what other remedy you have if you have these departments that are totally and completely out of control.

Now, the only reason that ICE is still operating is because Republicans have used this process in the United States Senate to keep their budget funded with only Republican votes. If Democrats take control of the House and the Senate, then we have the power to say to ICE, "We're not giving you any money -- we control Congress, now, -- unless you stop this widespread illegality." So we will have new levers at our disposal to compel ICE to start behaving legally if we do well in November, as I think we will.

SOBOROFF: Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, thank you so much for your report from the front lines and what you're seeing there today, and good luck on the rest of your walk.

(...)

Fox News @ Night
September 3, 2026
11:18 p.m. Eastern

CONGRESSWOMAN PRAMILA JAYAPAL (D-WA): Unfortunately, this hearing -- it's the fourth time in this committee that we've had a hearing on sanctuary cities -- the fourth time. And there's many other things that we could be doing other than this.

[Cuts back to live]

TRACE GALLAGHER: You may remember Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal admitting in front of an Angel family there are many other places she would rather be than talking about American deaths at the hands of illegal immigrants. Let's bring in Marcus Coleman whose daughter was permanently disabled in a crash caused by an illegal immigrant.

Marcus, thank you so much for coming on. Everybody has seen the Pramila Jayapal one -- I wanted to play this one for you because this happened on CNN a couple of night ago. It was a back-and-forth. Let's just play this for Marcus if we can.

[Cuts to video]

BRIANNA LYMAN (The Federalist): I think it's kind of insulting that we're talking about this immigrant instead of Brianna Connolly from Massachusetts who was strangled last week by an illegal alien. Why is the focus never --

LEIGH MCGOWAN (author): Oh my God, this is so exhausting over and over again.

LYMAN: It's exhausting for you because your daughter wasn't the one strangled.

[Crosstalk]

MCGOWAN: Oh my God, no. It's exhausting because you always pivot to something. 

[Cuts back to live]

GALLAGHER: "Exhausting." I mean, do they know how exhausted you are? And do they know what your daughter went through? And yet it's exhausting to them, and Pramila Jayapal doesn't want to -- it's amazing how the left has no tolerance for anything except for anti-ICE.

MARCUS COLEMAN: No, I 100 percent agree. And it's extremely exhausting. I mean, I work on maybe like four hours of sleep every night, primarily taking care of my daughter during the daytime, trying to work at nighttime and squeeze everything in. And so I'm exhausted.

GALLAGHER: Yeah, I can imagine you are. I want to play some of your comments, Marcus, because this was you on Capitol Hill. Let's -- let's watch this.

[Cuts to video]

COLEMAN: I reject your guys' sympathy, to be honest with you. There's no way you guys are sorry. Not one of you guys have ever called me -- not one of you guys have ever reached out to me. [Transition] You guys do it right here while you guys are grandstanding on top of your soapbox. This is when you guys care -- right here in inside this room is the only time you guys care.

[Cuts back to live]

GALLAGHER: You talked about a lawmaker falling asleep up there while you were there. How do you get your message out when you encounter so much indifference and ignorance? What's your -- what's your -- what's your remedy here, Marcus?

COLEMAN: There really isn't a remedy, to be honest with you. I mean, talking with -- with the Democrat representatives -- I mean, they -- the language they speak is ignorance, and it's hard for me to translate when I'm trying to say to them. I can explain it all day, I just can't understand it for them.

GALLAGHER: You do this a lot. As you say, you're working on four hours sleep. You brought -- you brought your daughter tonight. I mean, this is heartrending. It really is. And the nation -- most of the nation has got to be looking at you like, "This man is doing yeomen's work." You're not sleeping. What is your goal here, Marcus? What do you want people to learn about your family and about your cause?

COLEMAN: There's no remedy with open borders at all. Leaving your door unlocked at nighttime -- you're not going to sleep safe. Leaving the borders open at nighttime -- we're not going to be safe. My daughter is the proof. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of victims right now behind illegal aliens.

(...)

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