Inflammatory Democrat Rhetoric and the Dallas ICE Assault
Words are not violence, but words certainly can incite violence — especially when our elected officials demonize law enforcement as the “Gestapo” and “slave patrols.”
The basic timeline is simple:
Donald Trump was elected a second time to clean up the illegal immigration disaster Joe Biden and Kamala Harris created at the southern border.
Once in office, Trump, Border Czar Tom Homan, the Department of Homeland Security under Kristi Noem, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement began enforcing the law. That means not just closing the border to illegal entrants but rounding up and deporting illegal aliens, who should not be here. So far this year, two million illegals have been removed or self-deported.
Democrats, bent on casting everyone to the right of Karl Marx a fascist, made it all about race and allusions to Nazi Germany, routinely referring to ICE agents as the “Gestapo” for enforcing the law.
Sociopathic leftists, inspired by this inflammatory and false Democrat rhetoric, ramped up attacks on ICE agents by 1,000% this year, the most recent attack being Wednesday morning’s sniper assault in Dallas, which — somewhat ironically — killed one detainee and wounded two others.
Words are not violence, but words certainly can incite violence.
Across the street from the Dallas ICE facility, the assailant, 29-year old Joshua Jahn, was found dead of suicide with a bolt-action rifle similar to the one used to assassinate Charlie Kirk. A stripper clip with rifle rounds included one with “ANTI-ICE” written on the casing, and similar messages on other casings. Authorities say he “fired indiscriminately,” hitting both the ICE building and an unmarked transport van, holding the detainee victims.
Jahn’s brother said he “wasn’t interested in politics on either side as far as I knew,” but he did vote in the 2020 Democrat primary. His mother is also an anti-Second Amendment left-winger who ranted at Republicans on social media over mass shootings.
Investigators recovered a handwritten note that said, “Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?’” He also repeatedly searched about the specifics of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Naturally, MSNBC, which parrots Democrat “Gestapo” talking points, suggested that Jahn might be right-wing.
The Trump administration is having none of it.
“These horrendous killings must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences,” Secretary Noem posted on X. “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. The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop.”
JD Vance was more candid: “[This assailant] was politically motivated to go after law enforcement. [He was] politically motivated to go after people who were enforcing our border, and I think that is the most disgusting thing. The very people who keep us safe ought to be honored and protected and praised by Democrats and Republicans alike. It is time to stop the rhetorical assault on law enforcement. You don’t have to agree with my immigration policies. You don’t have to agree with Donald Trump’s immigration policies. But if your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to hell. And you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America.”
Vance added: “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. That’s the way that we stop political violence in this country.”
President Trump agreed. “This is despicable!” he lamented. “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 left no doubt about the blame: “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 added, “I AM CALLING ON ALL DEMOCRATS TO STOP THIS RHETORIC AGAINST ICE AND AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT, RIGHT NOW!”
Are Noem, Vance, and Trump being fair?
Maybe Jahn was a self-radicalized sociopath. Or maybe months of Democrat hysterics sank in.
In our video section today is a compilation of numerous Democrats repeatedly using the word “Gestapo” and otherwise demonizing law enforcement for “terrorizing,” “kidnapping,” and “disappearing” people on the streets.
SUPERCUT: Democrats referring to ICE agents as the Gestapo.
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It’s utterly disgraceful rhetoric. Democrats allowed the lawless invasion of illegals, and now they’re vilifying the law enforcement agents tasked with cleaning it up.
Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom of the sanctuary state of California is among the worst offenders. He recently signed a California law requiring ICE agents to take off their masks. “Unmask,” he said. “What are you afraid of?”
Now we know. Masks are meant to protect agents’ identities precisely because of incidents like the one in Dallas.
How ironic that Newsom, who infamously went unmasked during the “mask-up” pandemic craze, thinks that the feds should abide by his law when he refuses to uphold immigration law.
Worse, the day before the assault, the undeclared 2028 presidential candidate ranted to Stephen Colbert. “Masked men [are] jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing, no due process, no oversight, zero accountability,” Newsom said. “People ask, ‘Well, is it authoritarianism [or are] you being hyperbolic?’ Bulls**t, we’re being hyperbolic. If you’re a black or brown community, it’s here in this country. … These are not just authoritarian tendencies; these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government.”
The Leftmedia is predictably complicit. For example, in June, CNN promoted an ICE-tracking app. Now we learn that the killer used that app.
Earlier this week, NBC News posted a video along with an accusation that ICE agents nabbed a “5-year-old autistic girl” to use her as bait “to pressure father to surrender.”
It was completely untrue. The father abandoned his daughter while fleeing authorities. NBC removed the post with a correction, blithely stating that it had “mischaracterized the activities of ICE agents.”
That didn’t stop Ilhan Omar, the Democrat representative from Minnesota who should be deported back to Somalia, from calling it “vile and beyond cruel,” adding, “Abolish ICE.”
Vance specifically called out NBC and Newsom. Attacks like the one in Dallas happen “when Democrats, like Gavin Newsom did, say that these people are part of an authoritarian government,” he said. “When the left-wing media lies about what they’re doing, when they lie about who they’re arresting, when they lie about the actual job of law enforcement, what they’re doing is encouraging crazy people to go and commit violence.” He called NBC’s story “a complete fabrication” and “a complete dishonest lie,” saying, “But when you go around and lie about our law enforcement and you tell them that they’re mistreating five-year-old girls, what do you think is gonna happen?”
That’s a question more Democrats and Leftmedia hacks ought to be asking themselves.
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Update 9/26: Notably, the ICE assailant had a long history of immersion in violent video games. As Mark Alexander noted here, “The unrelenting immersion in video game violence is a common denominator among adolescent and young adult killers…”
Update 9/30: A second detainee has died of his wounds.
