WASHINGTON — This week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released new statistics on assaults against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) law enforcement who now face a more than 1,300% increase in assaults, a 3,200% increase in vehicular attacks against them, and an 8,000% increase in death threats.
Sanctuary politicians have created an environment that encourages rampant assaults on law enforcement, the agency said.
During the first year of the Trump administration, from January 20 – December 31, 2025, DHS officials reported 275 assaults as compared to the 19 reported assaults during the same period in 2024. This is a horrific 1,347% increase in assaults against ICE officers.
From January 21, 2025 – January 7, 2026, ICE law enforcement officers experienced 66 vehicular attacks against them, compared to only 2 during the same time period the previous year. This is a 3,200% increase in vehicular attacks.
“This unprecedented increase in violence against law enforcement is a direct result of sanctuary politicians and the media creating an environment that demonizes our law enforcement and encourages rampant assaults against them. Dangerous criminals – whether they be illegal aliens or U.S. citizens – are assaulting law enforcement and turning their vehicles into weapons to attack law enforcement,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “Still, the brave men and women of DHS will not be deterred and will continue arresting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens. Anyone who attacks law enforcement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Below are just a few samplings of the violent rhetoric against DHS law enforcement:
This rhetoric is contributing to a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against DHS law enforcement.
A non-exhaustive list of physical assaults include:
- A pedophile and criminal illegal alien hammered an ICE officer in the face with a metal coffee cup, breaking his lip open with a laceration requiring 13 stitches.
- A group of at least ten violent individuals opened fire on ICE officers at the Prairieland Detention Center.
- A criminal illegal alien viciously bit an ICE officer while resisting arrest.
- A sniper indiscriminately opened fire on the Dallas ICE facility and shot three detainees, killing two and injuring a third.
- A violent crowd attacked Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents who were conducting arrests of rioters who previously threw rocks at federal law enforcement vehicles at a marijuana facility.
A non-exhaustive list of vehicular assaults includes:
– A criminal illegal alien and suspected Tren de Aragua gang member, Luis Jesus Acosta Gutierrez, rammed a law enforcement vehicle into a tree during a vehicle stop (photo at right).
– ICE officers were targeted during two separate vehicular assaults in the Chicago metro area during Operation Midway Blitz.
– An illegal alien hit an ICE officer with a vehicle, nearly crushing the officer (see photo of crashed vehicles, below).
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem left a clear message, saying, “You will not stop or slow us down. ICE and our federal law enforcement partners will continue to enforce the law. And if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
The public can report doxing and harassment against ICE officers by calling 866-DHS-2-ICE (866-347-2423)
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I think some either failed or did not take a history class. If this happens in other countries you would be livid.
Former law enforcement officer, Kramer Hammy:
“It is clear that US citizens’ ignorance of federal laws and law enforcement duties, procedures, and limits of authority is getting to the point where it is deadly. I spent probably 3 hours watching and re-watching, and finding every single video and angle I could of the situation in Minnesota yesterday and came to one immovable conclusion based off of what I saw and what I know from a professional standpoint. This is long, but please give it a read.
“As a former officer, let me make something clear: ICE agents ARE NOT police officers, deputy sheriffs, or troopers. They are not local/state law enforcement. They are not federal criminal law enforcement. They have an INCREDIBLY limited scope of authority, and that scope of authority exists in detaining and arresting with probable cause and/or SIGNED WARRANTS those investigated and suspected of being in the US illegally.
“They cannot just pull anyone over for a traffic violation or because their car is in a place they don’t want it. They have NO authority to pull people over for ANYTHING other than immigration enforcement- and even then that involves probable cause, such as a known vehicle of someone they have been tracking, or a warrant. On very rare occasions they have the legal authority to pull someone over if they are threatening the lives of others, but that was not happening in this case. They do not have the training nor the authority to pull ANYONE else over. They cannot arrest legal citizens. They cannot detain legal citizens without probable cause to believe they might not be legal. They have ZERO authority to be attempting to force entry into a vehicle- without even identifying themselves, without a warrant, without exigent circumstances such as a life being directly threatened- that is trying to drive down the street without probable cause in relation to IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT.
“This ENTIRE situation in Minnesota was outside of the scope of legal authority from the get go. None of it was done within the scope of authority of ICE. Every single behavior those agents made was procedurally incorrect, done without proper authority, and was based off of intimidation and the assumption that people do not understand the law and their rights in regards to interactions with ICE.
“On no planet should an officer, agent, or any human being ever step in front of a car in ‘drive’ that is actively trying to leave and use their body as a shield to prevent a person from LEGALLY LEAVING a situation in which they are not legally being detained. It takes maybe a week of any kind of actual law enforcement training to understand that under NO CIRCUMSTANCES do you ever place yourself in front of a vehicle in ‘drive.’ That agent had every single opportunity to simply take two steps to the right and not be standing directly in front of a vehicle attempting to conduct their legal right to drive away.
“You can see the wheels are turned, [Renee] backed up and turned them to the right, moved forward a bit to leave, couldn’t because an agent was standing in front of her, and continued to try to leave by TURNING HER WHEELS TO THE RIGHT and moving forward. He continually chose to stand there and not allow her to legally leave as she had every single right to do.
The officer pulling on her door and banging on her window and swearing at her had ZERO authority to order her out of her vehicle or attempt to make entry into her vehicle. NONE. A single day of actual training of the legal scope of authority and the LAW would’ve prevented that from happening.
“You now have a frightened citizen being blockaded by immigration agents (with another person in her vehicle) who had zero obligation to follow legally invalid orders from that agent, being blocked in and having a fully grown, masked man attempting to make entry into her car. If this were reversed, every single person would immediately feel she had every reasonable expectation to fear for her safety. It doesn’t matter if she knew it was ICE because the agents weren’t even acting in their scope of authority anyway.
“Whether or not she made the right decision by very CLEARLY- based off of how hard her wheels were turned and how low and to the driver corner windshield that shot was fired- trying to drive to the left of that agent is IRRELEVANT in the picture as a whole.
None of this would have happened if those agents had done even one single thing correctly. Not just correctly, but within their legal scope of authority. Every single moment of that interaction was escalated by untrained, unprofessional, procedurally inept “agents” who not only had zero control of themselves but everything around them. And not because they are helpless, but because their actions that did not fall under their scope of power CAUSED this. Their tempers, lack of training, and the knowledge that they can get away with violating their own scope of authority caused this.
“I will always be the first to defend law enforcement when lethal force very clearly is required. But this was not even remotely the case, and as an actual TRAINED professional in that field with experience and understanding of both the law and procedures, there is no justification for this- and it would benefit EVERYONE to actually read up on the laws, scope of authority, and use a single shred of common sense to see that this situation was started, escalated, and caused by the ICE agents involved. I have zero respect for those in power who are ignorant of the scope of their authority and abuse it at the cost of lives around them.”
This trash rag is getting trashier!
Agree
Read the Glob then
the Glob? Showing your intelligence.
Globe
Kinda sad to see NI Today go full Trumper. Maybe a guy can give Trump a pass for the fake hair-like substance, the makeup, the lift shoes and his middle-school-grade social media banter. All that screams of bone-deep insecurity and arrested development, of course. But let’s get beyond that. NI Today used to be more than a cut-and-paste operation, and Matt would go out and do really good journalism. Now he’s a landlord, and how he came to be that would make for really good journalism that involves one of the sitting County Supervisors. But let that go too. Trump’s playbook includes degrading American journalism as fast as possible, even faster than it it degrading itself. Silencing criticism and blocking scrutiny is Authoritarianism 101, on the short list of goals when cooking a Republic into a dictatorship. We may not get there under Trump, especially if he and his ICE brownshirts are not allowed to interfere with polling sites in blue cities in the upcoming mid-terms and Trump loses the House Republican majority. But his private army will be at the polling sites, checking IDs … I’d bet on it. Keeping America safe FROM democracy. Anyway, cheering on the demolition of the press is not a good look for a news site that used to serve up great investigative pieces. Now, it’s just a great place to scan obits and get the latest scores. It is THE place to get those soccer and volleyball scores that most news sites won’t carry.
Same thing the right used to say when I reported on Trump’s trials and convictions and impeachments. Just another whiner with little ability to clearly read the story and all the words in it. Waaaaaaaaaa.
Right on anon! Scump and his Razi gestapo will do everything in their power to disrupt the midterms.
I also believe this and that all the commotion he is provoking in Minnesota and elsewhere is a pretext to declaring that we can’t trust the election process so we won’t have one. He just said yesterday “should have” ordered the National Guard to seize ballot boxes during the 2020 election, raising fears he will actually do so in the upcoming midterm elections.
Trump made the comments in an interview with the New York Times that ran over the weekend. When asked if that order, which he considered giving in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, was ever a real option, Trump ignored the illegality of such an action to opine about the feasibility instead.
“I don’t know that they [the National Guard] are sophisticated enough,” Trump said. “You know, they’re good warriors. I’m not sure that they’re sophisticated enough in the ways of crooked Democrats and the way they cheat, to figure that out.”wil
He will try. Don’t you doubt it
Yes comrade
If he does try it, I am sure you will be a dutiful follower and excuse his behavior, again.
Yes comrade
Stop killing American citizens and detaining American citizens and this rhetoric will decrease.
Stop placing oneself into situations where deadness is a real possiblity. Do we blame the subway when we jump onto the tracks and urge it to “bring it on” and then get pancaked? PS maybe stay home with the kids, clean your home, bake a cake for the family instead of urging karma to finally put you out of your misery. Just a thought. Also, do not marry a she-male psycho who allegedly put out ciggies on your kids’ arms.
Now you are printing accusations that have been proven false. Wow. You are a peach.
Show us the proof
“And if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
EXCEPT IF YOU PARTICIPATED IN THE JANUARY 6TH ATTEMPTED TAKEOVER OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. THEN YOU ARE OK.
Oh, comrade……
They were arrested in droves for the J6 incident. And jailed, prosecuted. You know this.
I do know that then the felon in the White House pardoned them all.
Ya, the pardons are beside the point. Many were still prosecuted and paid dearly. PS, since Trump’s a convicted felon (reported here relentlessly, just the way you liked it, but not good enough for you now), anyone can now be brought up on charges … even members of Congress.. Governors… Mayors. You prepared for the next stage of this act?
Beside the point? Wow!
Charged, convicted, sentenced, set free.
Utterly ridiculous.
Tell Hunter that
You think being charged with a federal crime is a picnic… maybe someday you can experience this and then get back to me on how delightful it was. Then a trial, conviction, prison/fines/costs/lose job/lose family/mugshot in the news… a real party. Eventually set free —> that doesn’t undo what came before the pardon. Get a clue.
Sounds like you have experience. What did they arrest you for?
It would help her cause if she actually knew what the law says about moving vehicles. Of course, trumpers don’t obey the law, they exploit it. Release the Epstein files.
In addition, Kristi ‘Bison Barbie’ Noem was on television this morning and was asked about trump’s enforcement of laws. She said he treats everyone equally. The reporter told her that wasn’t true and she said it was and if you attack a law enforcement officer under trump’s rule, you will be punished. The reporter pointed out that on January 6, 2021 many people assaulted law officers and trump pardoned them all. She didn’t have a ready response so she said it was a different situation but, of course, didn’t explain what was different about it.
“The reporter told her that wasn’t true” … yes, we all love a “reporter” who knows what is true or not over the course of thousands of interactions between LE and hooligans in the streets. The J6ers got a lot of pardons, but, the ones in question got their lives upended through arrests, trials, convictions, jail, fines … in other words, they did pay a price. Still shouldn’t have participated, IMO. But you insinuate they got off scot-free, and they didn’t. In regards to the on-going lawlessness in the streets, you are defending what appears to be paid instigators (traitors or criminals) or just outright nutcases, lost causes, losers, morons. They deserve a billy club to the noggin. It might re-scramble what few brain cells that have left and re-organize them so that at least one coherent thought could be produced.
Did you turn over responding to posts to Todd Blodgett? Sounds like it.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=25864534303199907&set=a.122050174541673
Rarely pay attention to FB. I certainly never reported anyone.
“yes, we all love a “reporter” who knows what is true or not ” is rather ironic coming from you.
And you state the protesters are paid. More assumptions from you because you cannot prove this.
What are they living on? any have a job?
Lots of retired folks, semi-retired, students, work from home, others who came when they could. I am sure some took the day off. Protesting is a right in this country.
Says Soros
No, you fricking russian troll, so says the Constitution.
Yes comrade
But, you know this “law” yes? Where did you get your law degree?
Back side of a Bazooka bubble gum wrapper……
That would be more instructional and more legitimate than a degree from trump university. Or from anything that comes out of his mouth.
Yes, comrade
Have you read them?
not lately
Have you read anything other nudie mags lately?