DHS calls on Democrat politicians to stop comparing ICE agents to Nazis in wake of deadly Dallas sniper attack

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has accused Democratic lawmakers of fueling a significant increase in violent attacks against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents due to their vile rhetoric described by the federal agency as "dangerous and dehumanizing." This includes consistently referring to ICE agents as "Nazis," "kidnappers," and "fascists."

The strong rebuke comes in the wake of a deadly sniper attack on a Dallas ICE field office on Wednesday morning, which left one migrant detainee dead and two others wounded.

"Our prayers are with the families of those killed and our ICE law enforcement. This vile attack was motivated by hatred for ICE," said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in a press release. "For months, we've been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed. 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 violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop."

DHS has reported a more than 1,000 percent increase in attacks on ICE law enforcement since President Trump entered the White House in January and launched large-scale nationwide deportation operations.

The Post Millennial gathered recent remarks from Democratic politicians, activists, and media pundits as examples of the rhetoric that DHS believes has increased violence against their agents.

On Tuesday, September 23, California Governor Gavin Newsom appeared on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert and likened ICE to the 1930s German Nazi Gestapo. "Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing, no due process, no oversight, zero accountability, happening in the United States of America today. People ask, 'Well, is authoritarianism, you mean hyperbolic?' Bullsh*t we're being hyperbolic. If you're a black and brown community, it's here in this country."

Earlier this month, Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker claimed that the United States is becoming "Nazi Germany" because of immigration enforcement operations. "You shouldn't have to walk around with papers the way that they did in the early days of Nazi Germany to prove that you belong and that you're not one of them. That is essentially the kind of country that we're becoming if you allow ICE to simply grab people after racial profiling," Pritzker told NPR in an interview.

On Wednesday, Democratic Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar shared a fabricated anti-ICE news story that Omar referred to as "vile" and "beyond cruel." She then called for the abolition of the federal immigration agency.

On September 8, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's former campaign manager, Saikat Chakrabarti, released a video claiming that President Trump was using ICE as "his personal fascist military."

In June, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries threatened to dox ICE agents during a press conference, saying, "Every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will of course be identified."

Additional examples include:

 

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons joined Fox News to discuss the sniper attack at the ICE Dallas Field Office, where he blamed Democrats, in part, for the increase in attacks against his officers.

"The rhetoric, and just the comments - disgusting comments - made about ICE officers...is really spurring all of these attacks, and it's only going to get worse," said Lyons.

On Wednesday morning, a leftist anti-ICE gunman fired shots into the ICE Dallas Field Office, killing two migrant detainees and critically wounding another in an act of targeted violence, according to the FBI. The suspect, 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities said the ammo found at the site was emblazoned with anti-ICE messaging.