Trump Comments On Incident At Dallas ICE Facility
The attack in Dallas this week was not just another isolated act of violence. It was the culmination of years of reckless rhetoric from the left against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and President Trump wasted no time in saying what needed to be said: this blood is on the hands of those who demonize law enforcement.
The facts are now undeniable. A gunman opened fire at an ICE field office in Texas, killing two detainees, wounding another, and scrawling “anti-ICE” messages onto his ammunition. This was not random rage—it was ideological targeting, fed by a political climate where prominent Democrats and media figures have normalized calling ICE “Nazis” and painting federal officers as enemies of the people.
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) September 24, 2025
Trump, in a post amplified by Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, was blunt: “The Brave Men and Women of ICE are just trying to do their jobs… but they are facing an unprecedented increase in threats, violence, and attacks by Deranged Radical Leftists.” He tied this attack directly to the drumbeat of demonization from Democrats who have compared ICE to Gestapo agents and openly called for the agency’s abolition.
And the timing couldn’t be clearer—just two weeks after the politically motivated assassination of Charlie Kirk in Utah. “The continuing violence from Radical Left Terrorists, in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, must be stopped,” Trump declared. He vowed to sign an executive order dismantling domestic terror networks like Antifa and called on Democrats to “STOP THIS RHETORIC AGAINST ICE AND AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT, RIGHT NOW!”
BREAKING: Senator @tedcruz calls out violent left-wing rhetoric after anti-ICE motive confirmed:
"This needs to STOP!"
"It was two weeks ago today that we saw a political assassination in Utah."
"This is the THIRD SHOOTING IN TEXAS directed at ICE or CBP."
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— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 24, 2025
Sen. Ted Cruz echoed the president’s warning, reminding the country that this was the third ICE- or CBP-related shooting in Texas alone. He drew a straight line between the words of politicians and the violence on the ground: “To every politician demonizing ICE and demonizing CBP, stop. To every politician demanding that ICE agents be doxxed and calling for people to go after their families, stop. This has very real consequences… Your political opponents are not Nazis.”
Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance dispensed with diplomatic phrasing and delivered the kind of moral clarity voters have been starving for: “If your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to hell, and you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America!”
Contrast that with California Governor Gavin Newsom, who just days earlier on Colbert sneered about ICE “disappearing people off the streets” and lobbed personal insults at Trump. That’s the environment being cultivated by the left: vilify officers, inflame emotions, and then act shocked when someone radicalized by that narrative pulls a trigger.