In the second attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas, a rooftop shooter murdered two illegal-alien detainees and wounded one when he fired at the facility in Dallas.
Joshua Jahn, 29, turned the rifle on himself after he botched what was likely meant to be the mass murder of ICE agents.
An anti-ICE message was on a bullet casing of one of the rounds found at the scene.
The Shooting
Citing the FBI and police sources, Fox4 in Dallas reported that Jahn fired from the top of a nearby building occupied by a law firm. The target was “an unmarked van with an ATF driver that was bringing detainees to the facility.”
Jahn attacked at about 6:30 a.m.
“The shooter fired indiscriminately at the ICE building, as well as at a van in the sallyport where the victims were shot,” the Department of Homeland Security reported on X:
Three detainees were shot. Two are deceased, and the other is in critical condition. The gunman was found with a self-inflicted gun wound.
FBI chief Kash Patel posted a photo of five bullets, one of which bore the inscription, “anti-ICE.”
Myriad X accounts have posted screen shots of Jahn’s now-deleted Facebook account, which features communist imagery.
Whether Jahn was channeling Tyler Robinson, suspect in the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, is unclear. Robinson, authorities allege, wrote leftist messages on the bullet casings collected after that crime.
“These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off. We are only miles from Prairieland, Texas, where just two months ago an individual ambushed a separate ICE facility targeting their officers,” Patel wrote on X:
It has to end and the FBI and our partners will lead these investigative efforts to see to it that those who target our law enforcement are pursued and brought to the fullest extent of justice.
Deadly Rhetoric
“This horrific attack occurred amidst the 1000% increase in assaults against @ICEgov,” DHS wrote on X. “Politicians and media pundits must stop the vile lies and smears designed to demonize and dehumanize ICE law enforcement.”
Tops among those demonizing ICE, as the White House Rapid Response X feed observed, is far-left Democratic Representative John Larson of Connecticut.
In a deranged speech last month, Larson likened ICE to the Gestapo, the secret police in Nazi Germany.
Ranting at a hate-ICE rally like a psychopath who forgot his morning medication, Larson unloaded on the officers who are doing their jobs:
This is not Germany, That’s the SS and the Gestapo. This is the United States of America. Unmask yourselves.
Far-left Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois has said much the same thing.
Years ago, then-Senator Kamala Harris of California compared ICE to the Ku Klux Klan. So Democrats have been vilifying ICE for years.
After today’s shooting, Homeland Security Kristi Noem told Larson, Pritzker and their ilk to knock off the hate-ICE rhetoric.
“For months, we’ve been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed,” she said:
This shooting must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences. Comparing ICE Day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences. The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, we just want to go home to our families at night. The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop.
Last month, the same Dallas field office might well have narrowly escaped a bombing. On August 25, DHS alleges, Bratton Dean Wilkinson, 36, showed up at the facility with what he said was a bomb and a detonator on his wrist.
Prairieland Shooting
The murders at the Dallas facility follow the near-murder of a police officer at an ICE facility in Prairieland, about 40 miles southwest of today’s shooting.
Involved in that attack was a former U.S. Marine, which suggests that subversives and terrorists might have penetrated the U.S. military.
The Prairieland raid involved more than a dozen leftists who attacked officers at the facility with fireworks, the criminal complaint says.
Ten minutes after that initial attack, “one or two individuals broke off from the main group and began to graffiti and damage vehicles and a guard structure in the parking lot at the facility,” the complaint alleges. The hateful graffiti included “Ice Pig” and “F*** You Pigs.”
An Alvarado, Texas, cop arrived after officers attempted to speak with the attackers. The would-be terrorists were hiding in the woods. One of them opened fire at DHS correctional officers and hit the cop in the neck, said the complaint.
“Police later found a Franklin Armory AR-15-style rifle” with a “bullet jammed in the chamber.” They then found another AR-15-style rifle in the woods near ”spent 5.56 casings, along with two body armor plate carriers with loaded AR-15 magazines.” Police also found a pistol magazine.
In other words, the suspects were prepared with military-style weapons and other gear to attack the facility.
