Heroic ICE officers, staff member open up on growing dangers: ‘Am I going to die?'

Two ICE officers and a unit subordinate honored by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin for their actions during the 2025 sniper onslaught connected the Dallas ICE Field Office spoke exclusively to Fox News astir the chaos that unfolded that time and the increasing threats they accidental ICE officers present look crossed the country.

Mullin awarded the officers medals for their heroic actions during the attack, erstwhile a sniper fired 17 shots from a adjacent rooftop astatine the Dallas facility.

Marco Solis, a deportation officer, said helium was sitting astatine his table erstwhile bullets started tearing done the building.

In an exclusive interrogation with Fox News, 2 ICE officers and a unit subordinate recount the chaos of the 2025 Dallas sniper onslaught and pass of increasing nationalist threats—just aft receiving honors from Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. (Fox News)

"I got deed successful the caput with something," Solis said. It was really debris, sheetrock from the slug penetrating aggregate walls. Caught maine disconnected guard. I didn’t cognize wherever it came from, right? You conscionable perceive a drawback travel done the doorway oregon done the window, the walls. And it wasn’t until that 2nd circular came done the partition that I really watched it tumble connected the extortion that I realized that we were getting, we had an progressive shooter connected our hands."

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The officers said the onslaught rapidly turned into a life-or-death rescue ngo arsenic detainees were struck by gunfire.

Andres Goche, besides a deportation officer, said helium and others worked to propulsion wounded detainees to safety. "It was Mr. Goche present that really physically pulled those victims retired of that van, that transport van, and brought them into our processing area, mounting up that triage country for us," Solis added.

"It is simply a interest that goes done each instrumentality enforcement officer," Goche said. "Am I going to die? Am I gonna get injured? Am one gonna… It comes with the job. It’s a hazard that comes with a job, right?" Goche said.

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The designation comes arsenic ICE officers person faced threats, unit and increasing hostility astatine facilities crossed the country.

"This is simply a caller world for each deportation officer, each ICE worker that’s retired determination passim the nation," Goche said. "It’s thing that we’ve travel to presumption with. The champion anticipation that we tin clasp onto astatine the infinitesimal is to proceed to trust connected each different and stress the value of our training." 

Law enforcement unit respond astatine the country of a shooting astatine an Immigration and Customs Enforcement tract bureau successful Dallas, Texas, connected Sept. 24, 2025. (Jeffrey McWhorter/Reuters)

Solis, who has spent much than 18 years successful national service, said helium has ne'er seen the situation go this dangerous.

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"I deliberation everybody successful the instrumentality enforcement assemblage understands the risks and accepts them," Solis said. "I don’t deliberation I’ve witnessed it beryllium this convulsive oregon this volatile successful my full 18 years of national service. It’s a mode of beingness for america now. It’s conscionable a world that we’ve had to travel to presumption with."

The officers besides addressed misconceptions astir ICE, saying officers and their families are progressively being targeted simply for enforcing national migration law.

"Our families, particularly our families, shouldn’t person to transportation the load oregon barrage of threats thrown astatine them simply due to the fact that their important other, their loved one, their household member, is an ICE serviceman conscionable enforcing the migration laws of the United States that are enacted by Congress," Solis said.

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Goche said overmuch of the choler toward ICE is fueled by misinformation and agitators.

"These are paid actors. They’re paid individuals with 1 purpose, which is to origin disturbance, to agitate, and to effort to derail america from our ngo priorities," Goche said "I privation to springiness my connection crossed to the American people. We’re not here, we’re not the atrocious guys," helium continued. "We’re officers, we’re quality beings, we person families, we person the aforesaid interests arsenic galore different radical retired determination successful this beauteous country."

Acting Field Office Director Joshua Johnson shows an bureau with boarded windows aft a sniper fired into the Dallas ICE Field Office. (Reuters Photos)

Christopher Pyne, an enforcement removal assistant, said the actions of the officers that time showed the humanity down the badge.

"These men were consenting to hazard their lives to prevention 1 of our detained. Like, we’re quality beings, and we admit that, you cognize everyone that we woody with are quality beings," Pyne said.

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Solis said officers bash not bash the occupation for awards oregon recognitionZ 

"It’s humbling. I don’t judge anybody does it for immoderate awards oregon accolades oregon recognition. It’s conscionable the close happening to do, whether anybody’s looking oregon anybody’s gonna admit you for it," Solis said.