On Saturday's The Weekend, co-host Eugene Daniels fretted over video of an immigration arrest in Massachusetts without informing viewers they were targeting a violent criminal, and then allowed a Democrat congresswoman to call the Homeland Security Department a "domestic terrorism organization." And co-host Jonathan Capehart brought up the case of immigration agents arresting a teacher at a Chicago daycare without informing viewers that she ran to the daycare trying to evade a traffic stop.
At 8:30 a.m. Capehart first brought up the Massachusetts arrest and skeptically read only part of DHS's statement:
All this comes amid yet more disturbing ICE arrest footage in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. There was video on social media of a man appearing to suffer a seizure while holding a toddler during an arrest. ICE disputes that account, saying the man had, quote, "no legitimate medical episode," and that he allegedly refused treatment.
The MSNBC host did not mention that the woman they were trying to arrest had recently attacked a coworker with scissors.
Capehart then brought up the Chicago case:
And in Chicago, ICE officers can be seen arresting a daycare teacher in a daycare parking lot, despite designations of schools as sensitive locations. DHS pushed back on reports that agents chased her into the daycare, saying they arrested her inside a vestibule and not in the school. Parents say the incident nonetheless left their children traumatized.
It was also not mentioned that, according to DHS, the illegal alien they were targeting had illegally paid to smuggle her children into the country across the border, and ran to the daycare trying to evade a traffic stop.
A bit later, while interviewing Congresswoman Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Daniels brought up the Massachusetts case again:
I'm sure you saw this video out of Fitchburg, and there's a different shot than what we showed where the man does appear to be having some kind of episode, you know. People there say it was a seizure -- the DHS says it wasn't. At the end of the day, he was still holding a child, and I'm having a hard time understanding how any law enforcement official can be grabbing anybody when they're holding a baby in their arms.
He then portrayed immigration agents as callous:
And so when you think about the tactics that ICE is using, right, it seems to have -- not have a care for any impact on anyone. They seem singularly focused on just getting the person that they're after, whether that person ends up being a citizen or not, right? We've seen them pick up American citizens.
Getting to his question, he admitted that he had cried after watching one of the videos of the encounter:
How do you think that changes the community? What are you hearing from folks? Because I just like, to be honest, I -- I -- I was crying when I saw the video yesterday of the father. I wasn't even sure why I started crying -- my husband had to hold me because I was so bothered by it. And it feels like Americans are bothered by it. DHS does not seem bothered by it. What -- how does it -- what are you hearing from the community?
The Illinois Democrat delivered the latest incendiary rhetoric against immigration agents as she accused them of perpetrating domestic terrorism:
It is indefensible what they're doing. You know what people were telling me on the ground on Chicago -- by the way, so many of us feel already PTSD from the Blackhawk helicopters flying over our homes on a daily basis -- that the Department of Homeland Security that is supposed to protect us from domestic terrorism has become a domestic organization of terror -- a domestic terrorism organization.
Transcript follows:
MSNBC's The Weekend
November 8, 2025
8:30 a.m. EasternJONATHAN CAPEHART: All this comes amid yet more disturbing ICE arrest footage in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. There was video on social media of a man appearing to suffer a seizure while holding a toddler during an arrest. ICE disputes that account, saying the man had, quote, "no legitimate medical episode," and that he allegedly refused treatment.
And in Chicago, ICE officers can be seen arresting a daycare teacher in a daycare parking lot, despite designations of schools as sensitive locations. DHS pushed back on reports that agents chased her into the daycare, saying they arrested her inside a vestibule and not in the school. Parents say the incident nonetheless left their children traumatized.
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EUGENE DANIELS: Congresswoman, I'm sure you saw this video out of Fitchburg, and there's a different shot than what we showed where the man does appear to be having some kind of episode, you know. People there say it was a seizure -- the DHS says it wasn't. At the end of the day, he was still holding a child, and I'm having a hard time understanding how any law enforcement official can be grabbing anybody when they're holding a baby in their arms.
And so when you think about the tactics that ICE is using, right, it seems to have -- not have a care for any impact on anyone. They seem singularly focused on just getting the person that they're after, whether that person ends up being a citizen or not, right? We've seen them pick up American citizens.
How do you think that changes the community? What are you hearing from folks? Because I just like, to be honest, I -- I -- I was crying when I saw the video yesterday of the father. I wasn't even sure why I started crying -- my husband had to hold me because I was so bothered by it. And it feels like Americans are bothered by it. DHS does not seem bothered by it. What -- how does it -- what are you hearing from the community?
CONGRESSWOMAN DELIA RAMIREZ (D-IL): President Trump has said that they haven't gone far enough.
DANIELS: Yeah.
CONGRESSWOMAN RAMIREZ: A man holding his toddler baby having a seizure and the baby practically getting choked out by the seatbelt. I mean, if that doesn't compel you into anger, frustration and fear, I don't know what would be. It is indefensible what they're doing. You know what people were telling me on the ground on Chicago -- by the way, so many of us feel already PTSD from the Blackhawk helicopters flying over our homes on a daily basis -- that the Department of Homeland Security that is supposed to protect us from domestic terrorism has become a domestic organization of terror -- a domestic terrorism organization.
