New attack on the Immigration Service

A gunman killed one person and wounded two others at a regional office of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Dallas yesterday before taking his own life, and investigators found bullets with anti-ICE messages near his body, officials said.

FBI Director Kash Patel posted a photo online that he said showed the suspect's unfired shell casings, one of which had the words "ANTI-ICE" written along the edge. "While the investigation is ongoing, a preliminary review of the evidence indicates an ideological motive behind this attack," Patel wrote.

The suspect opened fire on the office from a neighboring building at around 6:40 a.m. local time, police said. Two people were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, while a third person died at the scene.

The shooting, according to Reuters, occurred at an ICE regional office, not a detention unit, where ICE officers conduct short-term processing of recently arrested detainees.

The incident came two weeks after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed by sniper fire during an event in Orem, Utah, fueling fears of a new wave of political violence in the US.

President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and other administration officials have accused liberal organizations, without evidence, of fomenting unrest and encouraging violence against the right. On Monday, Trump signed an executive order designating the anti-fascist movement Antifa as a domestic “terrorist organization,” although no evidence has been released linking Antifa to Kirk’s death.

The Trump administration's aggressive use of ICE agents as part of its crackdown on undocumented immigrants has drawn condemnation from Democrats and liberal activists. ICE detention centers have increasingly become sites of conflict, with heavily armed agents using pepper balls, tear gas and other chemical weapons in clashes with protesters.

An ICE facility in suburban Chicago, where protesters have gathered daily since the Trump administration launched a wave of immigration crackdown earlier this month, erected a security fence on Monday after several protesters, including the mayor of Evanston, Illinois, were injured in clashes with agents last week.

Yesterday's attack is the third shooting this year in Texas at a Department of Homeland Security facility. In July, an officer was wounded in an incident at an ICE detention center in Prairieland, and a 27-year-old Michigan man was killed by agents after opening fire at a U.S. Border Patrol station in McAllen, also in July.