As soon as I saw the news about yet another attack on an ICE facility, I got flooded with claims that the murderous a-hole was a MAGA fanatic trying to kill immigrants.
Uh, yeah, well, NO! I knew it was rather unlikely--even if a MAGA-influenced person was out to kill illegal immigrants, which is not a thing, the chances he would shoot up people at an ICE facility were near zero.
Gavin Newsom, three days ago: “To ICE: Unmask. What are you afraid of?”
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 24, 2025
Today, he got his answer. pic.twitter.com/MR60aOu3Bx
Now it is true that the victims were migrants on their way to being deported, but that turns out to be because the assassin was a really bad shot and picked a remarkably stupid way to make an anti-ICE statement. He is, by all the evidence we have so far, exactly who you would expect: a relatively young radical activist who is doing what other Antifa activists are doing: shooting people, including ICE agents.
Anti-ICE messaging was found near the gunman. Joshua Jahn and people like him HATE US pic.twitter.com/OKxJswy3ow
— Deportation News (@DeportedNumber) September 24, 2025
I would be very careful about assuming that anything you see about a particular Joshua John--the killer's name--applies to this particular Joshua John. I don't have a common name, but I correspond with another David Strom, and there are several more, including a photographer, an artist, a physicist, and a violin instructor.
This morning just before 7am local time, an individual fired multiple rounds at a Dallas, Texas ICE facility, killing one, wounding several others, before taking his own life. FBI, DHS, ATF are on the ground with Dallas PD and state authorities.
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) September 24, 2025
While the investigation is… pic.twitter.com/SMOyxiKLqA
This morning just before 7am local time, an individual fired multiple rounds at a Dallas, Texas ICE facility, killing one, wounding several others, before taking his own life. FBI, DHS, ATF are on the ground with Dallas PD and state authorities.
While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an idealogical motive behind this attack (see photo below). One of the unspent shell casings recovered was engraved with the phrase “ANTI ICE.” More updates will be forthcoming.
These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off. We are only miles from Prarieland, Texas where just two months ago an individual ambushed a separate ICE facility targeting their officers. It has to end and the FBI and our partners will lead these investigative efforts to see to it that those who target our law enforcement are pursued and brought to the fullest extent of justice.
Thankfully, no law enforcement personnel were injured. Please pray for the injured and deceased.
But the clue that matters is the anti-ICE messages found, it seems, on the bullets left next to the gun. That is pretty definitive. We will know more about the particular killer in time, I hope.
Liberals will keep insisting that any connection to left-wing politics is a psy-op, though.
And now you will see Ed and the other liberals again, the same way they did with the Charlie Kirk shooter, pretend that Joshua Jahn is not a left-wing wacko who mistakenly shot detain when he was looking for ICE agents.
— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) September 24, 2025
They never take responsibility. https://t.co/bDT60G60Eu
ICE agents are regularly assaulted, and several have been murdered, along with other law enforcement officers working with them. Antifa activists ambushed agents earlier this year in Texas, and this is, I believe, the third serious violent incident in the region.
🚨 Three people were just shot outside an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas.
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) September 24, 2025
Remember: Tim Walz helped fuel this rhetoric when he smeared them as Trump’s “modern-day Gestapo.”
Walz spent nearly $500K on legal advice to dodge accountability, standing in front of Congress for hours… pic.twitter.com/7tN0S3fgaM
The Democrats have been banging on about how ICE agents are the Gestapo, and no doubt they will find a way to claim that Trump's policies cause all this violence.
If only he weren't Hitler.
SUPERCUT: Democrats referring to ICE agents as the Gestapo.
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) September 24, 2025
🎥 @WesternLensman pic.twitter.com/m5DOni3zyg
Well, I don't know about you, but whenever I see a Gestapo member killed in a World War II movie, it warms my heart. Those are the definitive bad guys in our culture, and Democrats comparing federal agents just doing the job that Congressionally passed laws assign to them, it puts a target on the backs of every one of them.
Democrats have more blood on their hands today. Our feckless governor went on a “comedy” television show last night ranting about ICE agents, spewing unhinged rage and vitriol. Early this morning a madman perched himself in the shadows and took innocent lives at an ICE facility.
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) September 24, 2025
Democrats know that, of course. They just find it politically useful to sacrifice a few agents to stir up their base and generate crowds of "protesters" at ICE facilities.
don't think any of these Democratic Party politicians want to sacrifice the lives of law enforcement officers. They just are willing to risk it for their own benefit.
A sniper attack on an ICE facility in Dallas.
— Gerald Posner (@geraldposner) September 24, 2025
Free speech is NOT free of consequences.
Attacks on ICE up 1000%.
Meanwhile: Gov Walz calls ICE “Gestapo.” Mayor Wu says they are neo-Nazis. Gov Newsom: “secret police.”
When leaders demonize, extremists act. Tone down the rhetoric.
The same is true when they are defending rapists and gang members as innocent migrants. It's not that they love hanging out with such people, but a photo op with an MS-13 human trafficker in El Salvador is pure political gold with their base. So they do it.
An absolutely unhinged @RepJohnLarson screams that ICE agents are "the SS" and "the Gestapo" for arresting illegal immigrants.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 28, 2025
Democrats continue to value illegals and criminals over law-abiding citizens, while endangering the heroes working to keep us safe — it's sick. pic.twitter.com/QpSBjceyND
How many acts of unhinged left-wing violence will we be subjected to? I don't want to hear any more Democrats or liberals give pro-forma statements about abhorring violence, but... It is insincere and tiresome.
BREAKING: ICE agents were just shot at in Dallas after Gavin Newsom's comments last night
— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) September 24, 2025
When are they going to be held responsible for their calls for terrorism? pic.twitter.com/vhFz2fsoWr
Even if the Democrats stop the insane rhetoric, the violence will go on for some time. They lit a fuse, and the bombs are going off.
I am sick of it. We are all sick of it. This is just another predictable consequence of Democratic policies, like the decline of our cities, that Democrats will promise to fix if we only give them power.
Democrats must stop demonizing the heroic men and women of ICE who are just doing their jobs to keep Americans safe. pic.twitter.com/GsqWiXvnRu
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) September 24, 2025
And to my liberal friends--and I do mean friends, because I do have liberal friends--I hate to say it, but this is what you voted for. You voted for the violence, the sterilization of children, the crime crisis, the social discord, the elevation of racial tensions, and the culture of hate that Democrats have caused.
The left is in a violence frenzy since Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
— Grummz (@Grummz) September 24, 2025
It’s only been only 2 weeks since his murder and now we have this ICE shooting in a Dallas. We also had:
- Attempted bombing of FOX news truck.
- Shooting at Sky Meadows Country club.
- Vandalism of… pic.twitter.com/HKIbxeRFW5
The left is in a violence frenzy since Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
It’s only been only 2 weeks since his murder and now we have this ICE shooting in a Dallas. We also had:
- Attempted bombing of FOX news truck.
- Shooting at Sky Meadows Country club.
- Vandalism of Charlie’s memorials.
- shots fired at ABC over Kimmel’s cancellation.
- debate assault at Tennessee State Uni.
That’s nearly every other day.
Meanwhile there has been no violence or riots from the right.
“Both sides” and “random person violence” is the biggest lie in media right now.
You may not have thought that this was what you were voting for, but we told you it was, and it is exactly as we predicted. I knew and told people I know that if Trump won, the left would explode into rage-filled violence, and it has.
Antifa websites totally open to the public explicitly call to so utterly terrorize ICE that federal agents are physically afraid to enter a city. If the Proud Boys wrote this about the FBI how fast would every single person around that website be indicted by Merrick Garland. https://t.co/aYYS6FxP1c pic.twitter.com/1bEzrzeBSV
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) September 24, 2025
As for the "Antifa is an idea, not an organization" people, F-off. We all know that is a BS talking point. The cells may be loosely connected, as with any terrorist group, but the group and the fellow travelers are real.
The prearranged, coordinated ambush intended to kill ICE officers at the Alvarado, Texas ICE facility on 7/4 is the worst so far by a left-wing terror cell linked to Antifa and was a next-level, coordinated paramilitary-style attack. This insurgent-style op is the 5th assault on… pic.twitter.com/2FTmA9qLP9
— Elizabeth MacDonald (@LizMacDonaldFOX) July 9, 2025
Look at what Democratic Party leaders have been saying and try to deny that they are inciting violence. It is a constant refrain that they are fighting Nazis, and we all know what that means. Liberals took to social media to celebrate an assassination, and even after a 1000% increase in attacks on ICE agents, the rhetoric only jacked up.
Is this what you want? I know it isn't. Quit screaming at us and do something about the moral decline of the Democratic Party and its embrace of the radical left.
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