Rosie O'Donnell went on camera and told her audience that ICE agents are sexually assaulting children in detention.
DHS called it categorically false and pointed directly at her as the reason death threats against agents are up 8,000 percent.
And Trump’s DHS made Rosie O’Donnell regret this sick claim about ICE agents.
What Rosie Actually Said
O'Donnell posted a TikTok video last week that started with Dolly Parton and ended with Holocaust comparisons.
"We all vowed 'Never Again,' remember?" she said in the video.
She told her audience that just like Germany fell to fascism, America is falling right now – and then she said it.
"We're making concentration camps. We're rounding up people without a warrant. We're ra*ing children in detention, in ICE detention. They're all getting pregnant,” she said.
She went further, demanding to know who has "access to those girls" and what happens to their babies.
There is no evidence for any of it.
This wasn't even her first time.
In July 2025, O'Donnell called ICE "his own personal Gestapo" and spent a video comparing Trump's America to Nazi Germany.
She fled the country after Trump's re-election, returned anyway, and apparently decided to keep going.
DHS Fires Back
A DHS spokesman didn't mince words.
"These disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE smears are directly contributing to our officers facing a 1,300% increase in assaults, a 3,300% increase in vehicular attacks and an 8,000% increase in death threats against them," the agency said in a statement to Fox News.
That last number is worth sitting with.
Tom Homan – the man running immigration enforcement – had to send his own wife to a separate home because the threats against his family became too dangerous to ignore.
DHS also rejected every specific claim O'Donnell made about facility conditions.
Detainees receive hot meals, clean water, clothing, bedding, toiletries, phone access to lawyers and family, and meals evaluated by certified dieticians.
Pregnant detainees – who make up just 0.15 percent of the total detained population – receive prenatal visits, mental health services, nutritional support, and postpartum follow-up care.
The spokesman noted that for many detainees, the medical care they receive at ICE facilities is the best healthcare they have ever had in their lives.
The Real Victims Rosie Won't Talk About
DHS put the spotlight on something O'Donnell refuses to acknowledge.
"These celebrities remain quiet about the humanitarian crisis that was manufactured by the Biden administration's open border policies and the several hundred thousand children exploited, trafficked and missing on their watch," the spokesman said.
Under Biden, hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors crossed the border.
Children – real ones – were handed off to traffickers, placed in dangerous situations, and lost in a system that wasn't tracking where they went.
ICE is actively working to find those children right now.
O'Donnell doesn't mention them.
She doesn't post TikTok videos about the angel families who buried their sons and daughters because someone here illegally took their lives.
https://twitter.com/FoxNews_Flash/status/2095247273341120854?s=20
She doesn't invoke the Holocaust on behalf of American victims.
She saves that for the people ICE is arresting – people she describes as victims of fascism while the actual victims of illegal alien crime go unacknowledged.
What This Rhetoric Actually Costs
This is the part that should make you angry.
When celebrities with millions of followers go on camera and tell their audiences that ICE agents are child ra*ists running concentration camps, some people believe it.
And some of those people act on it.
DHS tracked 66 vehicular attacks against ICE officers in a single year – up from just two the year before.
That's not a statistic.
https://twitter.com/FoxNews_Flash/status/2094939970264011194?s=20
That's someone pointing a car at a federal agent and hitting the gas.
The Nazi comparisons and Gestapo rhetoric have real consequences – and Homan has said so directly.
The DHS spokesman asked the question no one in the mainstream media will ask: "Where is the outrage for angel families who lost a loved one to illegal alien crime?"
Eighty percent of Americans support deporting criminal illegal aliens.
The ICE agents O'Donnell is smearing are the ones hunting down the murderers, pedophiles, and gang members – the ones the Biden administration let walk free for four years.
That's what the "concentration camp" comparison is actually covering up.
Sources:
- Alexander Hall, "DHS condemns Rosie O'Donnell after 'disgusting' claim that detained immigrants are raped in ICE facilities," Fox News, September 2, 2026.
- Department of Homeland Security, "Radical Rhetoric by Sanctuary Politicians Leads to an Unprecedented 1,300% Increase in Assaults Against ICE Officers," DHS.gov, January 8, 2026.
- Department of Homeland Security, "ICE Officers Face an 8,000% Increase in Death Threats Against Them and Their Families," DHS.gov, January 26, 2026.
- Breanne Deppisch, "ICE assaults spike over 1,300% as Dems draw 'hard red line' to unmask agents in DHS battle," Fox News, February 16, 2026.