Disturbing data reveals assaults against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are up 830% between January 21st and July 14th, 2025, compared to the same dates one year earlier.
The Department of Homeland Security shared the staggering information in a press release on Tuesday along with an official statement from DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
“Brave ICE law enforcement are risking their lives every day to keep our communities safe from the worst of the worst criminals. ICE law enforcement are succeeding to remove terrorists, murderers, pedophiles and the most depraved among us from America’s communities, even as crazed rhetoric from gutter politicians are inspiring a massive increase in assaults against them. It is reprehensible that our officers are facing this threat while simply doing their jobs and enforcing the law,” she wrote.
“The actions by Representative Carbajal are downright un-American. He dares to claim that his actions were simply congressional oversight, but doxxing ICE personnel and inciting a mob of rioters to attack law enforcement is NOT oversight—it’s abominable,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.
“His actions sent an ICE employee to the emergency room. It’s no wonder that ICE agents are facing a 700% increase in assaults when radical members of Congress like Salud Carbajal and Monica McIver are openly encouraging and leading their supporters in assaulting law enforcement,” McLaughlin continued.
Last week, an ICE employee DHS says was doxxed by Rep. Salud Carbajal was taken to the emergency room for stitches after a rock was thrown at him, causing his hand to bleed, according to pictures from the department.
The incident took place at a massive riot that broke out as ICE conducted operations at a California marijuana farm in Carpinteria, which resulted in 361 arrests of those in the country illegally.
Meanwhile, Carbajal slammed the doxxing allegations in an X post on Sunday.
“This is a blatant attempt to distort what occurred in Carpinteria. DHS and ICE conducted their raid using a disturbing and disproportionate level of force, both on the farm workers they were targeting and the peaceful protesters who gathered to defend their neighbors,” he posted to X.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) encouraged people to push back against the Trump administration “in the streets” and has repeatedly called for ICE agents to be unmasked despite threats against them and their families.
Rep. Eric Swalwell has also criticized ICE agents for covering their faces — many of whom are doing so due to threats against themselves and their families — comparing them to “some 1800s bank robber or some KGB officer in Russia.”
Governor — and former vice presidential candidate — Tim Walz (D-MN) invoked the Nazi regime when he called ICE agents the “modern-day Gestapo.”
ICE Director Todd Lyons and Border Czar Tom Homan have voiced support for those agents who choose to cover their faces, saying that they have to be allowed some measure of protection against the unprecedented attacks.
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