In the wake of another horrific attack on ICE, this time an ICE facility in Texas, the Trump Administration accused the Democrats of stirring up the attacks by spreading malicious and irresponsible claims about ICE’s conduct that have convinced demented and violent radicals to attack the brave federal agents.
As background, the Trump Administration’s comments on the matter came in the wake of an attack on an ICE detention facility in Dallas, Texas. A lone gunman with a vintage, bolt-action rifle shot at a van in the facility, apparently trying to slay ICE agents. However, he missed those agents and ended up hitting three illegal alien detainees.
One of the detainees died near immediately, another died days later. The third is still living, but wounded. ICE agents responded bravely to the attack, with footage from it showing them trying to get the detained individuals to safety before bravely responding to the sniper’s gunfire.
In any case, the White House released a statement shortly after the attack in which it alleged that an anti-ICE radical had carried out the attack and that the slaying came because of Democratic messaging. The statement began, “The carnage in Dallas, Texas — where a maniac with ‘ANTI-ICE’ ammo gunned down an ICE field office in an attack clearly targeted at ICE personnel — lays bare the deadly consequences of Democrats’ unhinged crusade against our border enforcement.”
Continuing, the Whtie House noted some of the irresponsible rhetoric pushed by the Democrats and alleged that it had led to the massive uptick in attacks against ICE, saying, “Democrats have spent years vilifying ICE as ‘fascists,’ ‘the Gestapo,’ and ‘slave patrols,’ inciting a 1,000% surge in assaults on agents and a wave of Radical Left terror. Their words aren’t just reckless — they’re a battle cry for violence.”
The White House then gave dozens of examples of Democratic leaders pushing horrific rhetoric. One such example was that Rep. Robin Kelly said, in a post on Instagram, “These gestapo tactics are a betrayal of the values we swear to uphold. This is not the America we believe in.”
Another was an incident in which ICE insisted that ICE raids are like “slave patrols,” saying, during an appearance on MSNBC, “As somebody who understands history, when I see ICE, I see slave patrols.” She added, “But as somebody who understands history, when I see slave patrols — now, I never lived through the slave patrol period — but if you know the history of policing in this country, then you understand that they were born out of slave patrols. And now with the Supreme Court saying this, it’s almost like you can just go grab them up.”
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And, in still another horrid series of comments quoted by the White House, California Gov. Gavin Newsom snapped that ICE was like the “secret police” for an “authoritarian” regime, saying, “This is about the secret police. We’re not North Korea Mr. President, we’re not the Soviet Union, we’re the United States of America, and we’re pushing back against these authoritarian tendencies and actions of this administration.”
Watch Newsom here:
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