Videos: Assaults against ICE agents increase 830% amid ‘anti-ICE rhetoric'
In a Tuesday press release, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that assaults against ICE officials have increased by 830% from January 21 to July 14 compared to the same dates in 2024.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, 'Just in: our brave @ICEGov law enforcement are now facing a 830% INCREASE in assault against them.'
Noem explained that the new statistic released by the Department of Homeland Security 'reflects the violence' that law enforcement officials across the United States have faced over the past several weeks. The secretary urged politicians 'regardless of political stripe' to 'condemn' the increased assaults against law enforcement officials.
'Brave ICE law enforcement are risking their lives every day to keep our communities safe from the worst of the worst criminals,' Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in Tuesday's press release. '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,' McLaughlin added.
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Tuesday's press release noted that the increase in assaults against ICE officials comes as Democrat leaders and media outlets have 'escalated their anti-ICE rhetoric' over the past several weeks.
'Democratic members of Congress have been caught red-handed doxing and even physically assaulting ICE officials,' the department stated. 'Meanwhile, the mainstream media continues to publish alarmist, patently false stories about federal immigration enforcement efforts.'
The Rapid Response 47 account shared videos on Monday of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) encouraging Americans to 'fight' the Trump Administration 'in the streets' and warning that ICE agents 'will be unsuccessful' in hiding their identities.
.@RepJeffries, who implores people to 'fight' the Trump Administration 'in the streets' and declares that ICE agents 'will be unsuccessful' in protecting their identities 'no matter what it takes.' pic.twitter.com/ZEEkhtIGbZpic.twitter.com/wy5fMOEsO7 — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 15, 2025
A second video shared by Rapid Response 47 shows Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), who was recently charged with 'forcibly impeding and interfering with federal officers,' encouraging anti-ICE protesters in Newark, New Jersey, to 'shut down the city' and claiming, 'We are at war.'
.@RepLaMonica — who was charged with 'forcibly impeding and interfering with federal officers' — who incites her supporters to 'shut down the city' because 'we are at war.' pic.twitter.com/1hpa1joDT8 — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 15, 2025
Rapid Response 47 also shared a video of Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) calling ICE operations 'deranged and cruel and outrageous' and accusing ICE agents of 'coming and kidnapping and disappearing people.'
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