Attorney General Pam Bondi announced federal assets will be sent to secure ICE facilities across the country. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Bondi wrote in the post that there will be "ZERO TOLERANCE" for political violence and domestic terrorism.
"Assassins have tried to murder President [Donald] Trump twice and tried to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh," Bondi said. "In Minnesota, legislators, and even children attending Mass, were gunned down in cold blood in two separate incidents, and an assassin targeted and murdered our friend Charlie Kirk. A sniper shot three people at a Texas ICE facility, and now more than 200 violent rioters were at a Chicago ICE facility, chanting, ‘arrest ICE, shoot ICE.’ At least one had a gun."
Demonstrators march past the Chicago Theater during a protest against Trump's administration's immigration policies. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Officials have not said how many agents will be sent, or which facilities they will secure.
Bondi also instructed the Joint Terrorism Task Forces across the country to "disrupt and investigate" all entities and people engaged in acts of domestic terrorism, including the repeated acts of violence and obstruction against federal agents.
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"The Department of Justice will seek the most serious available charges against all participants in these criminal mobs, including conspiracy offenses, assault offenses, civil disorder offenses, and terrorism offenses," Bondi wrote in the statement. "While these never-ending attacks are designed to break our will, they only strengthen our resolve to complete the work begun. To that end, I have directed the FBI, DEA, ATF, and USMS to accelerate our efforts alongside the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to locate, apprehend, detain, prosecute, and remove all illegal aliens present in our country. The rule of law will prevail."
DHS and ICE did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.
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