“Last year, 32 individuals died while in ICE custody, 170 American citizens were detained by ICE, and Renee Good was tragically shot and killed by an ICE agent,” Stanage stated.

“In what way is that considered doing everything correctly?” he questioned.

In response, Leavitt asked Stanage about the circumstances surrounding Good’s death. Stanage explained that an ICE agent had acted recklessly, resulting in her unjustifiable death.

The White House press secretary then launched into a minute-long critique directed at Stanage.

“Oh, so you’re a reporter with a biased, left-wing perspective,” she remarked.

“You’re a left-wing hack, you’re not a reporter, you’re posing in this room as a journalist, and it’s so clear by the premise of your question.

“And you, and the people in the media — who have such biases, but fake like you’re a journalist — you shouldn’t even be sitting in that seat.”

Leavitt claimed Stanage was a left-wing activist pretending to be a journalist.

She said ICE agents work to make the nation safer and suggested Stanage focus on innocent Americans killed by ‘illegal aliens’ in the US.

“Shame on you people in the media who have a crooked view, a biased view, and pretend you’re an honest journalist,” Leavitt concluded.

In the same press conference, she dodged a question from The Independent about a recent joke from President Donald Trump about cancelling elections.

This week, he told Reuters the US shouldn’t even bother with mid-term elections in 2026, although the White House insisted he was joking.