Staff Reports
On September 24, 2025, a gunman opened fire at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas in a brazen, sniper-style attack that left multiple people wounded and at least one dead, before the shooter took his own life as law enforcement closed in. The scene was chaotic and tragic, another stark reminder that federal facilities and the people who work in and around them are being targeted in a new wave of politically motivated violence.
Investigators quickly recovered disturbing physical evidence that points to motive: unspent rounds and casings at the scene were marked with the words ANTI ICE, and FBI leadership described the markings as indicative of an ideological motive in the attack. Director Kash Patel publicly shared images of the ammunition, underscoring that this was not random criminality but a deliberate, politically charged act.
Local reports and federal briefings made clear the attacker fired from an elevated position near the facility, striking detainees in the sally port area while ICE personnel were not among the wounded. Authorities have labeled the incident an act of targeted violence and are coordinating at the federal level as the investigation continues to unfold.
This shooting did not happen in isolation; it fits a troubling pattern of assaults, threats, and vandalism against immigration and homeland security facilities this year, including a violent attack on an ICE detention center in Alvarado over the July Fourth period and a bomb threat against the Dallas field office just weeks earlier. These are not the acts of lone lunatics but of radicals emboldened by rhetoric that treats law enforcement and border security as legitimate targets.
Lawmakers and state leaders rushed to condemn the violence, but words are no longer enough when bullets are literally stamped with ideological slogans. Senators and governors from both Texas and Washington have called for swift action and full accountability, and Americans deserve to know why the institutions that protect our borders and enforce the law have become acceptable targets for extremists.
For conservatives who value order and the rule of law, the imperative is clear: label and prosecute politically motivated attacks as domestic terrorism, harden security at federal facilities, and stop pretending that incendiary political talk is harmless. Social media platforms, radical groups, and irresponsible public figures who glorify attacks on agents of the state must be held to account so that rhetoric does not keep translating into bloodshed.
We mourn for the victims and their families and we stand with the brave men and women who do the difficult work of enforcing our laws and securing our borders. In a country where patriotism means defending institutions that keep us safe, there can be no tolerance for a culture that whispers approval at violence against federal employees or the agencies that protect our sovereignty.
