Homeland Security fires back at Joe Rogan after his blunt statement on Renee Nicole Good shooting and ICE raids

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has responded to Joe Rogan's criticisms.

On a recent episode of his very popular podcast, Rogan discussed the killing of Renee Nicole Smith and the ICE raids that have been taking place in Minneapolis and the rest of America.

Chatting with Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, the podcaster said about Good's 'horrific' death: "After that woman was shot, unfortunately, I mean, everything's unfortunate about it. But one of the real problems is now, ICE are villains. And now people are looking at them like murderous, military people, that run the streets of our city.

"They're masked up, which is also a problem, right, because if you get arrested by a cop, you're allowed to ask the cop, 'what is your name and badge number?' And you could film that cop."

Joe Rogan recently compared ICE to the Gestapo (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

Rogan went on: "But if you get arrested by an ICE agent, you have no such right, you're wearing a mask, they don't have to tell you sh*t. That's a problem, that's a problem on our city streets, right?"

Elsewhere, Rogan said he understood why people don't want militarized people in the streets 'snatching people up' and noted that these people often end up being US citizens that just happened to have not had their papers on them.

He added: "Are we really going to be the Gestapo? 'Where are you're papers?'"

Tricia McLaughlin, DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, was asked about Rogan's take on it all on Fox News, who played a clip of his podcast for her.

Asking for her responds to his remarks, McLaughlin shared: "If Tim Walz and Mayor [Jacob] Frey would let us in their jails, we wouldn’t have to be there at all."

She continued: "Currently there are 680 illegal aliens that includes murderers, that includes rapists, child pedophiles, people who, whether you’re Republican or Democrat, you would never want these people to be on your streets or [to be] your neighbors.

"That’s the people who we are targeting and we’re trying to get out of Minneapolis, because we don’t have state and local law enforcement’s help, we have to have a physical presence on the ground there."

McLaughlin doubled down on the idea that if state law enforcement helped the FBI and ICE with their investigations then Americans would be better off.

"We want to give accountability for it and we want to give answers," she concluded.