Wave of car attacks on ICE agents follows incendiary rhetoric from target-city leaders

A surge in car-rammings and other assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE agents during targeted operations in California Illinois and North Carolina has coincided with sharp criticism from local and state leaders against federal officers Earlier this week the Department of Homeland Safeguard announced a increase in vehicular attacks on ICE since President Donald Trump took office and a spike against CBP officers in that same time period There were only two vehicular rammings of ICE agents in particular during former President Joe Biden s final year in office His administration also did not conduct fervent targeted immigration raids at the same scale or frequency according to reports DEMS URGED TO STOP SIDING WITH ILLEGAL ALIENS AFTER ACTIVIST RAMS AGENTS IN SANCTUARY CITYIn comments to Fox News Digital on Friday Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin explained Since January there have been conveyance attacks against DHS law enforcement a increase in assaults against them and an increase in death threats to ICE officers Make no mistake The uptick in these kinds of attacks is being fueled by the constant demonization of ICE and CBP officers by Democrat politicians They need to knock it off before they get one of our officers killed Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson whose city was targeted second after Los Angeles has repeatedly labeled Trump a racist and characterized ICE agents as terrorists As in recent weeks as this week Johnson informed a podcast in a record aired by Sky News that attacks on illegal immigrants and targets of the Trump administration have the same characteristics as the priorities of antebellum freedmen We know that the intentional attacks that are coming from the Trump administration and the extreme right in this country has very much been what I call an attempt to relitigate the Civil War Johnson revealed They have not accepted the results that the North authentically won FROM WORDS TO BLOODSHED DEMOCRATS BLASTED FOR RHETORIC AFTER DEADLY ICE SHOOTINGJohnson commented that Trump is also politically targeting tuition housing transportation jobs and medical care which he explained were literally the five demands of descendants of slaves During the Civil War however the Confederacy was led largely by Democrats of that era including President Jefferson Davis Vice President Alexander Stephens and officers like Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest who later became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan During the heat of immigration enforcement operations in Chicago Johnson railed against the missions describing scenes from the streets as what terrorism looks like Johnson also set up what he called ICE-free zones and in one instance Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem was denied the use of a restroom at the Broadview Ill city hall just outside Chicago proper BLUE STATE ICE AGENTS DODGE BULLETS SPEEDING CARS AS LEFT RAMPS UP TRACKING CAMPAIGNSNoem blamed Illinois Gov JB Pritzker for the conditions that led to the case saying it is an example of how the Democrat and his cronies treat our law enforcement -- Absolutely shameful Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass also spoke out during ICE operations in her city saying These tactics sow terror in our communities Sen Alex Padilla D-Calif was caught on video shouting questions at Noem during a press conference DHS WARNS OF UNPRECEDENTED VIOLENCE AS DEATH THREATS AGAINST ICE OFFICERS SOAR Noem later claimed Padilla lunged at her which resulted in various analyses of video of the confrontation Padilla was hastily tackled by Noem s protection detail and later commented on the episode saying that if his cure is how the Trump administration deals with a senator with a question you can only imagine what they re doing to farmworkers on the immigration enforcement front California Attorney General Robert Bonta publicly called the actions of ICE and CBP during its Los Angeles operations part of a cruel and familiar patter of attacks on our immigrant communities by an administration that thrives on fear and division We won t be silent We won t back down We will continue to hold the federal regime accountable when it violates the Constitution and federal law Bonta noted in a July comment MANHUNT UNDERWAY AFTER FEDERAL AGENTS TAKE GUNFIRE AS RIOTERS RAM VEHICLES HURL DEBRIS IN CHICAGOOn Friday DHS disclosed another arrest of a car-ramming suspect with agents alleging Mexican national Roberto Galeana-Guatemala struck and seriously injured an officer with his truck when ICE was attempting to arrest him in National City California Galeana-Guatemala was charged Friday with the assault as well as one count of being a removed alien who again entered the U S illegally McLaughlin revealed the affair marked roughly the th conveyance attack on ICE personnel since Trump took office After a latest circumstance in which critics claimed DHS kidnapped a teenager McLaughlin noted the boy had been part of a group throwing rocks at officers who themselves were targets of another bicycle ramming attack She suggested rhetoric from critics over the circumstance was yet another accelerant on the political fire causing such attacks A U S teenager was arrested for assaulting law enforcement in Chicago any asserts that CBP kidnapped a U S citizen and held him in a warehouse are bizarre and categorically false she noted These are more disgusting smears peddled by the media and billboard law firms This attack is not an isolated episode and it reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers