Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it will “immediately increase security” at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities across the country after the Wednesday deadly shooting at ICE’s field office in Dallas, where one detainee was killed.
"In light of today's horrific shooting that was motivated by hatred for ICE and the other unprecedented acts of violence against ICE law enforcement, including bomb threats, cars being used a weapons, rocks and Molotov cocktails thrown at officers, and doxing online of officers families, DHS will immediately begin increasing security at ICE facilities across the country,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a Wednesday statement to The Hill’s sister network NewsNation, adding that ICE officers are facing a more than 1000 percent increase in assaults against them.”
A lone gunman opened fire Wednesday at a Dallas ICE field office, killing one person, while two others were in critical condition.
The gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot. No ICE agents were harmed in the shooting.
Officials identified the suspected gunman as Joshua Jahn, 29, of Collin County, Texas, NewsNation’s Ali Bradley reported.
Law enforcement said anti-ICE messages were found on bullet casings. The shooting is being investigated as “an act of targeted violence.”
“For months, we’ve been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed. 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,” McLaughlin said in the statement.
"The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, we just want to go home to our families at night,” McLaughlin added. “The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop.”
Source: The Hill - News
