As President Donald Trump aims to crackdown on illegal immigration, Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois has accused the administration of “terrorizing people in their homes.”

“Immigrants are afraid to go to church… the market… their children’s schools… restaurants… all because of ICE. That’s not what America stands for,” the long-serving senator asserted in the post on X, using the acronym that refers to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said, “ICE agents are facing a 1000% increase in assaults because of unhinged smears from Democrat politicians, and instead of dialing back their false rhetoric, Democrats are doubling down.

“The Trump Administration’s top immigration enforcement priority is removing the countless dangerous criminal illegal aliens that the Biden Administration let waltz through their open border and have been terrorizing American communities. President Trump successfully secured the border in record time, and now the Administration is removing these sick criminals from our streets.”

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Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Ill., during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, June 5, 2025. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The comments in Durbin’s post echoed similar remarks he made during a speech in which he also floated the World War II internment of Japanese Americans as a historical “parallel.”

“More than 2 million illegal aliens have left the U.S. including 1.6 million who have voluntarily self-deported and over 527,000 deportations,” Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement Monday.

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President Donald Trump gestures as he departs on Air Force One from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang on Oct. 27, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

“This is just the beginning. President Trump and Secretary Noem have jumpstarted an agency that was hamstrung and barred from doing its job for the last four years,” she noted.

Durbin announced earlier this year that he will not seek re-election in 2026.

He will turn 81 years old next month.

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Durbin has served in the Senate since early 1997.

He had previously served in the House of Representatives starting in early 1983.