Just two weeks after a leftist assassin engraved transgender slogans on bullets and shot conservative activist Charlie Kirk at an event in Utah, another sniper has opened fire on a detention center for illegal immigrants, writing anti-law enforcement phrases on his ammunition.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that the gunman who shot at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Dallas, Texas on Wednesday morning, killing one detainee and injuring two others before taking his own life, penned “anti-ICE” phrases on his bullets. “While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an idealogical [sic] motive behind this attack,” Patel said. “These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off. … It has to end and the FBI and our partners will lead these investigative efforts to see to it that those who target our law enforcement are pursued and brought to the fullest extent of justice.”

The deceased shooter has been identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, according to multiple reports. Jahn has been reported to be registered as an Independent voter but has voted in Democratic primaries. Although investigators are still working on confirming his political motivations, Jahn’s mother has been reported to post “rants” against Republican officials on social media, mostly Facebook.

According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), 36-year-old Bratton Dean Wilkinson made a bomb threat against the same ICE facility last month. Another gunman was shot and killed at a U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) facility in McAllen, Texas in July after firing on employees and attempting to force his way into the building. An Antifa terrorist cell also attacked an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas in July, setting of fireworks and explosives and shooting and injuring at least one law enforcement officer. In June, Los Angeles erupted in days-long riots targeting ICE agents, prompting the president to federalize California’s National Guard.

President Donald Trump and officials in his administration have faulted Democrats for inciting violence against ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers. “This is despicable! 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,” the president wrote in a social media post. “This violence is the result of the Radical Left Democrats constantly demonizing Law Enforcement, calling for ICE to be demolished, and comparing ICE Officers to ‘Nazis,’” he stated. “I AM CALLING ON ALL DEMOCRATS TO STOP THIS RHETORIC AGAINST ICE AND AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT, RIGHT NOW!”

Vice President J.D. Vance also tore into Democrats and their allies in the media. “If your political rhetoric encourages violence against law enforcement, you can go straight to hell, and you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America,” the vice president declared. “Political violence has gotten out of control in this country. We gotta stop it, we gotta condemn it and that starts, unfortunately, at the very top of the Democratic Party,” he pointed out. “If you want to stop political violence, stop attacking our law enforcement as the Gestapo. If you want to stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi. If you want to stop political violence, look in the mirror.”

“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,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement. “Comparing ICE Day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences. 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,” she continued. “The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop.”

In an interview less than two weeks ago, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) compared ICE raids to “slave patrols.” The left-wing legislator said, “Now, I never lived through the slave patrol period. But if you know the history of policing in this country, then you understand that they were born out of slave patrols.” In response to an inaccurate and later corrected NBC News story falsely claiming that ICE had arrested a 5-year-old girl, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) called the agency “vile and beyond cruel.” She added, “Abolish ICE.” Roughly 12 hours before Jahn opened fire on the Dallas ICE facility, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) condemned ICE and federal immigration raids in an interview. “Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing, no due process,” Newsom claimed. “These are not just authoritarian tendencies, these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government.”

In comments to The Washington Stand, Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, said, “We are living the results of not applying consequences in so many aspects of our society.” She explained, “The incitement rhetoric against ICE is partly a result of not thoroughly enforcing immigration laws for decades. Now that the Trump administration is applying consequences against immigration violations, illegal alien advocacy groups and politicians are lashing out.” Ries continued, “Likewise, after not applying consequences to crime and violence generally, and during the 2020 riots in particular, Antifa and affinity groups continue to use violence and ratchet it up to deadly violence against their assigned targets. They won’t stop until they are forced to stop. We need real consequences, quickly.”

Jessica Vaughan, director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, told TWS, “This attack in Dallas is terribly disturbing, especially on the heels of other attacks on immigration officers and in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination.” She continued, “It’s hard to imagine what kind of troubled person could do this, and that person is responsible, but it’s also hard to ignore the political environment in which this is taking place.” Democrats who smear and vilify ICE, Vaughan said, “give the impression that they think violence is okay when they don’t get their way, and they seem to think their side can get away with it as long as they don’t pull the trigger themselves.”

“Opponents of immigration enforcement have convinced themselves that anyone who disagrees with them is evil, and must be stopped by any means necessary,” Vaughan said. “They seem to be playing a game of chicken, hoping that if the situation becomes too dangerous for immigration officers to do their job, then Trump will stand down, and if a few innocent people get killed along the way, well that’s Trump’s fault. It’s a despicable attitude.”

“There is no question that the same hysterical mind-set applies to other issues, including transgender issues, where unstable and vulnerable people have been inspired to kill, not only Charlie Kirk, but a Border Patrol officer in Vermont, and several other murders,” Vaughan pointed out. “It’s past time for the radical Left to stop the hate-mongering, and for their center-Left allies to disavow it and show that they are capable of having a respectful dialogue with conservatives,” she said. “I believe some more moderate liberals have enabled the poisonous speech and been too slow to tamp it down, and now it has gotten out of control. I would like to think that there are still a few true leaders on the Left who can be good role models, help steer their allies to a better way, and restore civility to the public square.”