A police chief has revealed that no gun was found on a 13-year-old boy who was detained last week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement—exposing a second serious falsehood pushed by a top Department of Homeland Security official this week.

Reports that a seventh-grader had been arrested by federal agents and taken to a juvenile detention center more than 500 miles away from his family sparked widespread outrage on Monday.

Amid the social media furore, Tricia McLaughlin, who, as Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s top communications official, went into bat for ICE on her official social media account.

She posted on X: “Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including viole

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