AdvertisementEarlier today, NBC News reported that ICE used a five-year-old autistic girl as "bait" to capture her illegal immigrant father. ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family. ICE agents NEVER used a 5-year-old girl as “bait”—what a disgusting smear. The target, Edwards Hip Mejia, ignored law enforcement emergency lights to pull over and drove back to his house. AdvertisementMcLaughlin called the smears "disgusting" and blamed the media for the "1000% increase in assaults against our brave law enforcement."