Sanctuary politicians' rhetoric led to 1,150% surge in violence against ICE agents: DHS

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Monday that assaults and convulsive attacks against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) instrumentality enforcement officers person surged much than 1,150% compared to the aforesaid play past twelvemonth nether the Biden administration.

From Jan. 21 done Nov. 21, DHS recorded 238 assaults connected ICE officers, up from conscionable 19 during the aforesaid timeframe successful 2024.

Officials said the crisp emergence is tied to nationalist "rhetoric" from sanctuary-jurisdiction officials, informing that specified connection could substance further violence.

"Sanctuary politicians request to code the rhetoric down earlier a instrumentality enforcement serviceman is killed," Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said successful a statement. "They should beryllium thanking these brave instrumentality enforcement officers who hazard their lives each azygous time to apprehension pedophiles, rapists, murderers, pack members, and terrorists from our neighborhoods."

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An ICE cause required 13 stitches aft being struck successful the look with a metallic object, DHS says. (Department of Homeland Security)

"After months of Democrat politicians comparing ICE to Nazis, the Gestapo, enslaved patrols, and adjacent encouraging amerciable aliens to defy arrest, our brave ICE instrumentality enforcement officers person been assaulted 238 times," she added.

According to DHS, officers crossed the section person faced "a dangerously escalating pattern" of unit successful caller months — ranging from hitting, spitting, kicking and biting during arrests to conveyance ramming, gunfire and Molotov cocktail attacks. 

DHS said the unit has included 1 serviceman being struck successful the look with a metallic java cup, resulting successful a articulator laceration that required 13 stitches. Another serviceman was near bleeding from the caput and suffered a concussion portion arresting a transgression amerciable alien.

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An ICE serviceman sustained a caput wounded during an operation, 1 of implicit 230 reported assaults connected agents this year. (Department of Homeland Security)

"Our instrumentality enforcement officers person had Molotov cocktails and rocks thrown astatine them, been changeable at, had cars utilized arsenic weapons against them, and been physically assaulted," McLaughlin said.

In September, Guatemalan nationalist Henry Isaul Garcia allegedly reversed his conveyance into an ICE agent’s limb during an attempted apprehension successful Homestead, Florida, astir crushing the officer.

Earlier successful the summer, Benjamin Hanil Song, a erstwhile U.S. Marine Corps reservist, was allegedly portion of an organized July 4 ambush connected national officers astatine the Prairieland Detention Center, wherever astatine slightest 10 individuals opened fire.

A wrecked conveyance is seen aft a collision with an ICE cause during an attempted apprehension during a postulation stop.   (Department of Homeland Security)

In June, fugitive Eric Anthony Rodriguez, who has a lengthy transgression record, reportedly attempted to onslaught officers with a Molotov cocktail astatine a edifice adjacent Los Angeles International Airport wherever 15 ICE and 12 CBP officers were staying. Rodriguez had respective anterior convictions, including battle with a deadly limb and second-degree robbery.

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"These nationwide incidents amusement however ICE officers are being targeted due to the fact that of the badge they wear, not conscionable the enforcement operations they execute connected behalf of the American people," DHS said successful a property release.

The section added that immoderate onslaught connected those who enforce the nation’s laws amounts to an onslaught connected the regularisation of instrumentality itself.