Law enforcement personnel respond at the scene of a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas, Texas, Sept. 24, 2025. (Jeffrey McWhorter/Reuters)
"We need to apply consequences early and often to crime, particularly violence, and immigration violations," she added.
FBI Director Kash Patel said law enforcement officials recovered anti-ICE messaging at the scene. One of the unspent shell casings was engraved with the phrase "ANTI ICE," underscoring investigators’ belief that the attack was politically motivated.
"These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off," Patel wrote on a post in X. "We are only miles from Prarieland, Texas, where just two months ago, an individual ambushed a separate ICE facility targeting their officers," he added.
Charlie Kirk throws hats to the crowd after arriving at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025 in Orem, Utah. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)
"At a certain point, if you make these arguments about people, somebody, somewhere, will take you seriously enough to use force because you are making an argument that seems to justify the use of force," Lehman added.
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The dynamic he describes has already played out in stark terms — most dramatically in the two recent assassination attempts on Trump.
Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pumps his fist as he is rushed offstage by Secret Service agents after being grazed by a bullet during a rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna MoneymakerGetty Images)
Paul Sracic is an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. and the former chair of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Youngstown State University. He said demonizing ICE doesn’t make the threats go away.
"The Department of Homeland Security, using Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents – that’s what ICE stands for – is charged with implementing the immigration laws passed by a democratically elected legislature," Sracic said.
"To label the enforcement of democratically enacted laws fascist, and the agents responsible for enforcing those laws Nazis, is absurd. It’s also dangerous."
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Beyond the rhetoric, Sracic emphasized that lax immigration enforcement carries its own dangers, from terrorism to fentanyl:
"We really need our political leaders, media figures, and citizens to model a return to principled disagreement, where policy differences are debated without resorting to apocalyptic hyperbole."
Amanda covers the intersection of business and geopolitics for Fox News Digital.
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