The left is attacking, threatening and doxxing Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents in order to impede them from doing their jobs arresting illegal immigrants. Doxxing them, which means to publicly disclose personal information of a federal agent, is a federal crime.
The attacks and threats on ICE agents have reached an unprecedented level under the Trump administration. DHS announced in January that there has been a 1,300 percent increase in assaults on ICE agents since President Donald Trump took office, a 3,200 percent increase in vehicular attacks and an 8,000 percent increase in death threats. There were 275 assaults and 66 vehicular attacks last year.
Numerous ICE agents have been injured by violence. Some officers were struck by vehicles, such as one who suffered leg injuries in Florida last September. One was beaten with a metal coffee cup in Houston, causing facial burns and lacerations in November 2025. Others were punched or strangled.
A man posted an ICE attorney's home address on social media, urged others to harass her and her family, and called for "swatting" her — false emergency calls to provoke armed police response. Gregory John Curcio was arrested and prosecuted.
The left demands that ICE agents stop wearing masks, but there is no federal law that restricts them from wearing them. Some states, like California, have passed laws prohibiting them from wearing masks, but the Trump administration is currently challenging these in court.
The left is hypocritical about ICE agents wearing masks. Their radical factions, such as Antifa and Black Bloc, wear masks to disguise their identities. Of course, they’re doing it to avoid being identified and arrested later, whereas ICE wears masks in order to avoid being harassed and threatened.
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The ICE List website, which was launched last June, publishes names, photos and links to public profiles on LinkedIn and Facebook of ICE agents, Border Patrol personnel, immigration judges and other DHS-related figures. It uses AI tools to identify masked agents from photos or videos of operations. The site now contains at least 4,500 profiles. Meta’s Facebook, Instagram and Threads block links posted to the site due to exposing personally identifiable information.
The site, which is run by Irish activist Dominick Skinner, who lives in the Netherlands, is hosted on an Icelandic top-level domain (.is). Iceland’s Minister of Infrastructure Eyjólfur Ármannsson said he intends to pursue legal amendments regarding Iceland's management and policies for the .is domain in order to crack down on doxxing.
Skinner is conveniently ignoring the Netherlands’ aggressive stance on deporting illegal immigrants. The Netherlands is considered one of Europe's more aggressive countries conducting deportations in 2026, with faster processes, reduced protections and higher rejection/return efforts amid rising asylum cases. Rejections of claims for asylum there increased 56 percent in 2025 over 2024. The Dutch Parliament passed a law last July that makes illegal immigration a crime, and is now waiting for Senate approval. This was in part due to the influence of the conservative Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom) under Geert Wilders. The PVV has participated in governing coalitions, where it pushes for stronger controls against illegal immigration.
Leftist politicians are riling up agitators into violence. Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA-7) called obstruction "inspiring.” Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8) called for resistance "in the streets." Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called ICE agents “modern-day Gestapo.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom called them “secret police.” Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) repeatedly stated ICE is "terrorizing our communities," and is "turning our country into a fascist police state," is a "rogue agency" and called for its abolition. Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-5) described ICE actions as "vile and beyond cruel," "state violence" and advocated to "abolish ICE." Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) compared ICE to "slave patrols." Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) urged people to "figure out a way to stop ICE from what they are doing as soon as possible.”
We all know what’s going on. The politicians know that mentally ill people seeking to divert their anger and problems elsewhere feed into the hype, making ICE the bogeyman instead of working on their own personal problems and blaming their families and the environment they grew up in for their unhappy lives.
Julie Mikela Winters, a transgender with a lengthy arrest record, threw a knife at an ICE officer outside Portland's ICE building last September. Angelica (Adrian) Guerrero, a trans activist with a history of disorderly arrests, slashed the tire of an ICE transport van and threatened federal officers with a knife, shouting, “I’m going to f*** you up” and “I’m going to stab you.” The Border Patrol released photos of a bearded transgender woman suspected of spiking the tires of ICE vehicles.
But the reality is that ICE arrested illegal immigrants more aggressively under the previous Democratic presidential administrations of Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Obama was nicknamed “Deporter-in- Chief” by critics for deporting so many. He deported between 3.1 million and 5.3 million, depending on the analysis, the highest of any president during the modern era. Biden deported 3.7 million to 4.6 million — while not as many as Obama, he was only in office for one term.
In contrast, Trump only deported 932,000 to 1.2 million during his first term, and only 622,000–675,000 so far during his second term. So this perception that Trump is engaging in mass deportations compared to his predecessors is fake news; it’s not even as significant as the efforts under his Democratic predecessors. Incidentally, thanks to the fake alarm, many illegal immigrants are self-deporting. Approximately 1.9–2.2 million have self-deported under Trump. It’s ironic that the left’s incitement, combined with the fake news’ scare articles, is responsible for this.
If you thought Trump was ramping up efforts against illegal immigration, he’s really not. It’s just faux outrage created by the left to attack him over anything. We now live in an Orwellian world where the left and their comrades in the fake news spin everything to make Republicans look bad, regardless of how incorrect and hypocritical the attacks are.
Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.
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