Homeland Security to 'immediately' increase security at ICE facilities after Dallas attack

The Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday that it was "immediately"increasing security at its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities following the attack hours earlier at a facility in Dallas. 

The alleged shooter, identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, killed one detainee and injured two others before killing himself. 

Joe  Rothrock, special agent in charge of the FBI Dallas field office, said during a press conference that Jahn wrote anti-ICE messages on the rounds of ammunition, but no law enforcement officer was injured. The case is being investigated as an "act of targeted violence.” 

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the security increase also comes as ICE officers experience an over 1,000% increase in threats and attacks against them, according to The Hill.

“In light of today’s horrific shooting that was motivated by hatred for ICE and the other unprecedented acts of violence against ICE law enforcement, including bomb threats, cars being used a weapons, rocks and Molotov cocktails thrown at officers, and doxing online of officers families, DHS will immediately begin increasing security at ICE facilities across the country,” McLaughlin said in a statement.

“For months, we’ve been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed," she continued. "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 assistant secretary did not indicate how much of an increase in security would be deployed at facilities. 

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.