Anti-ICE Violence Escalates to Doxing, Threatening Officers at Home

“ICE is trash,” announced the handwritten note, placed atop a pile of garbage, dumped on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer’s front lawn. Another vulgar note threatened the officer by name.

Such personal intimidation of law enforcement officers is part of an escalating trend of violence, as the left-wing agitators that pitched Black Lives Matter riots five summers ago now direct their inappropriate ire against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency tasked with enforcing federal immigration law.

After failing to deter ICE law enforcement efforts through mass rioting in Los Angeles, lawless radicals have adopted tactics that might be called more “sophisticated,” although they remain just as sinister.

“Criminals have posted fliers in officers’ neighborhoods, that includes their name, address, pictures of them and their families,” warned the Department of Homeland Security. “These fliers threaten officers with text that says, ‘NO PEACE FOR ICE’ and ‘CHINGA LA MIGRA’ (translation: F— immigration services).”

In addition, “multiple organizations” have published the personal information of ICE officers on “anarchist and Antifa-affiliated” websites, DHS added.

As a result of these doxing campaigns, as well as street agitation, violence against ICE officers has increased 830% between Jan. 21 and July 14 of this year, compared to the same period in 2024, DHS announced in a Tuesday statement obtained by The Washington Stand.

This is a sharp increase from the end of June; DHS previously announced that assaults against ICE officers increased 690% between Jan. 21 and June 30 of this year, compared to the same period last year. Fox News’ Bill Melugin obtained the underlying data, which showed that there were 10 assaults on ICE officers from Jan. 21 to June 30, 2024, and 79 assaults from President Donald Trump’s inauguration through the end of June in 2025.

The unprecedented attacks on ICE, combined with the efforts of left-wing agitators to target ICE officers personally, have prompted ICE officers to wear face masks while making arrests.

“Name a police agency that has a 700% increase in assaults. Name one. You can’t,” border czar Tom Homan said in a recent interview. “So, they’re wearing masks to help give them some sort of protection.”

Left-wing mouthpiece NPR, which somehow still receives public funding, sought to turn masked immigration agents into a new type of bogeyman. “Civil rights groups and legal advocates [euphemisms for those trying to prevent the government from deporting illegal immigrants] say it’s creating fear and undermining public trust,” NPR wailed.

But NPR inevitably gave the game away. “What they’re doing is actual terror,” NPR quoted Job Garcia, a Ph.D. candidate who should know better, “and the pain they’re inflicting on the community is huge. Stripping people from their families—this is beyond politics.” Ah, so Garcia’s problem is not so much with ICE agents wearing masks as it is with ICE agents doing their jobs.

In any event, condemnation of mask-wearing ICE agents rings hollow when it issues from the same institutions that applauded mask-wearing Black Lives Matter rioters in 2020, mask-wearing abortion demonstrators in 2022, and mask-wearing pro-Hamas agitators in 2023-2024.

“The same people that are complaining about ICE wearing masks, have they ever said anything about BLM protesters wearing masks?” asked Homan. “Did they ever say anything about the masked protesters that became criminals on college campuses that threatened Jewish students and took over buildings, destroyed property?”

Aside from medical uses, the purpose of masks is to provide anonymity. This is true regardless of who is wearing the mask, although there can be more or less legitimate reasons for seeking anonymity. A protester has no legitimate reason for seeking anonymity, since the whole point of political protest is to be seen and known, and the Constitution provides protections for peaceful assembly. If someone attends a protest wearing a mask, there is a good chance they plan to commit some lawless behavior, since the anonymity a mask provides would then help them to escape identification or disappear into a crowd.

On the other hand, a law enforcement officer carrying out his duties should be seen as an agent of the state. Except when he gravely abuses his authority or violates his instructions, or those instructions are flagrantly unjust, an individual officer should not bear personal consequences for carrying out government policy. In any event, such consequences must be determined in a court of law, not by vigilantes harassing him at home or threatening his family.

Recent events have proven that ICE agents do have legitimate cause to fear left-wing violence. Earlier this month, the Department of Justice charged 10 individuals, who appear to belong to an Antifa cell, in a coordinated ambush of law enforcement officers at an ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas. The agitators launched fireworks at the facility and sprayed graffiti on cars; when the first police officer responded, they shot him in the neck, then opened fire on other unarmed ICE officers.

The same day, another armed man fired dozens of rounds at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas.

Then on Thursday, Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., identified an ICE employee to a mob who sought to prevent ICE officers from arresting illegal immigrants working at a marijuana farm. The mob subsequently attacked him, striking him with a thrown rock so that he required stitches in his hand.

In Portland, Oregon, agitators have repeatedly clashed with law enforcement officers outside the ICE facility, resulting in arrests on multiple occasions. These highly organized agitators deployed a shield wall and a makeshift battering ram, giving a military flavor to their intermittent siege—something that harmonizes with the graffitied death threats they left behind.

Those who complain about “militarized” policing overlook the reality that domestic law enforcement agencies confront increasingly militarized criminals, which require police officers to don heavy gear to keep themselves safe. And, whereas many military personnel live on secured bases, police officers and their families live in ordinary houses on ordinary streets, making them far more vulnerable to off-duty harassment.

This may seem like a logical leap, one which makes the assumption that left-wing agitators view police officers—particularly ICE officers—as enemies on a personal level. Yet that assumption appears to be true; there is no other rationale for doxing individual ICE officers. Left-wing radicals subscribe to a totalitarian Marxist ideology, which means that their political convictions consume the totality of their life and threaten to consume the totality of others’ lives too.

This totalitarianism combines with a rejection of democratic principles to create a dangerous revolutionary cocktail. Left-wing radicals reject the concept of nations and borders as such. Therefore, they object to American immigration law, which proposes to define and defend our nation’s border. Instead of organizing a popular movement to rewrite immigration law, these radicals prefer simply to obstruct its enforcement through demonstrations of naked power. Failing to muster the power necessary to override the state, they have diverted their energies to target the individual agents of the state, who are individually far weaker.

“From comparisons to the modern-day Nazi Gestapo to glorifying rioters, the violent rhetoric of these sanctuary politicians is despicable. This violence against ICE must end,” said Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin in a statement provided to The Washington Stand. “Every day the men and women of ICE put their lives on the line to protect and defend the lives of American citizens.” For courageously assuming this risk, left-wing agitators would punish ICE officers by putting an even larger target on their backs.

This is not only fundamentally unjust, it is also a direct assault on the American government and should be treated as such. “We will prosecute those who dox ICE agents to the fullest extent of the law. These criminals are taking the side of vicious cartels and human traffickers,” declared DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. “We won’t allow it in America.”

Originally published by The Washington Stand

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