Shooting at ICE facility leaves 2 people dead

Two people detained by ICE were killed and another was critically injured when a shooter opened fire at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas, the Homeland Security Department said.

The gunman fired indiscriminately at the ICE facility and at a nearby unmarked van, law enforcement officials say, before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  No law enforcement were injured. FBI Director Kash Patel posted a photo on X of unused ammunition recovered from the scene. One casing has the phrase “ANTI-ICE” on it.

It is the latest in a string of attacks on ICE facilities in recent months as the agency ramps up efforts to deliver on US President Donald Trump’s pledge for mass deportations.

“While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an ideological motive behind this attack,” Patel wrote on X.  “These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off.”

FBI special agent Joe Rothrock told a news conference that rounds found near the gunman contained “messages that are anti-ICE in nature”. “This is just the most recent example of this type of attack,” he said. He said the FBI was investigating it as “an act of targeted violence”.

Dallas police said a preliminary investigation determined the suspect had opened fire from an adjacent building. “The shooter fired indiscriminately at the ICE building, including at a van in the sallyport where the victims were shot,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz also spoke at the news conference, condemning “politically motivated violence”.  “Your political opponents are not Nazis,” he said, urging people not to demonize each other for partisan reasons. “The divisive rhetoric, tragically, has real consequences.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement: “This shooting must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences. “Comparing ICE Day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences.”

US Vice-President JD Vance posted on X: “The obsessive attack on law enforcement, particularly ICE, must stop. I’m praying for everyone hurt in this attack and for their families.”

Governor of Texas Greg Abbott said on X the shooting would “NOT slow our arrest, detention, & deportation of illegal immigrants”. This shooting appears to be the latest in a series of far left violence and terrorism in America.

While many establishment media try to claim both sides are to blame for the violence, the reality is quite clearly different. The statistics that they use to “show” that violence comes more from the right wing counts violence by all white gangs in jails as “right wing” but does not count violence by all black gangs in jails as “left wing.”

If the left wing of this country continues to lie and demonize conservatives and immigration enforcement, it is difficult to see how more violence won’t happen.