President Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and other Republicans impassionately called on lefty pols to stop “demonizing” Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers after a deadly shooting at a Dallas migrant processing facility on Wednesday.
“To every politician who is using rhetoric demonizing ICE and demonizing CBP [Customs and Border Protection]: stop,” Cruz begged during a press conference about the shooting.
Sen. Ted Cruz called on politicians “using rhetoric demonizing ICE and demonizing CBP” to “stop,” at a press conference after the shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas on Sept. 24, 2025. AP
Law enforcement agents search a vehicle near the scene of a shooting. AP“To every politician demanding that ICE agents be doxxed, and calling for people to go after their families: stop.”
Trump claimed the violence in Dallas “is the result of the Radical Left Democrats constantly demonizing Law Enforcement, calling for ICE to be demolished, and comparing ICE Officers to ‘Nazis.’
“The Brave Men and Women of ICE are just trying to do their jobs, and remove the ‘WORST of the WORST’ Criminals out of our Country, but they are facing an unprecedented increase in threats, violence, and attacks by Deranged Radical Leftists,” he wrote on Truth Social.
Police block off I-35E close to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office after a reported shooting in Dallas on Wednesday. AP
Law enforcement agents look around the roof of an apartment building near the scene. APA gunman indiscriminately opened fire on a bus full of migrants outside the ICE facility, killing one detainee and critically wounding another two, authorities said.
The words “anti-ICE” were written on a stripper clip of ammo found near the body of shooter Joshua Jahn, who took his own life during the gunfire.
The shooting comes as liberal activists and Democrats have directed heated criticism at the Trump administration’s hardline illegal immigration enforcement.
Ammunition found at the scene of a shooting. X/@FBIDirectorKashFirebrand Rep. Jasmine Crockett (R-TX) has even referred to ICE as “slave patrols” and California Gov. Gavin Newsom has labeled the agency a large private domestic army for an “authoritarian” government.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem argued the shooting should serve as a “wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences.”
Follow The Post’s coverage of the Dallas ICE facility shooting
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- Shooter Joshua Jahn’s brother claims sniper ‘didn’t have strong feelings about ICE’: report
“Comparing ICE Day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences,” she wrote on X.
“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.”
Vice President JD Vance also weighed in.
“The obsessive attack on law enforcement, particularly ICE, must stop,” Vance tweeted.
Authorities believe the shooting was targeted and fueled by an “ideological motive,” but a clear motive is still being probed.
