Ten people were arrested for planning an ambush on an ICE detention center in Texas over the weekend, federal and state officials said Monday.
In a press conference, Nancy Larson, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, explained the group showed up and began vandalizing the facility and setting off fireworks to draw officers out of the building, coming “with the intent to kill ICE corrections officers,” she said.
An Alvarado police officer who came to the scene was shot in the neck by one person, while facility correction officers had between 20-30 rounds fired at them by another.
Law enforcement found 12 sets of body armor, spray paint, a flag saying "resist fascism, fight oligarchy," flyers saying "fight ice terror with class war free all political prisoners," more fireworks, weapons and cell phones across multiple searches over the weekend.
Police also found two AR-15s nearby, according to court records.
No employees at the Prairieland Detention Facility were harmed during the shooting incident and the officer who was shot is expected to recover, according to Josh Johnson, the acting field office director for ERO Dallas.
The U.S. attorney's office has charged the individuals with three counts of attempted murder of a federal officer, and each of the suspects is also charged with three counts of discharging a firearm in relation to a crime of violence. (ABC News)
Border czar Tom Homan has demanded Democratic lawmakers tone down their anti-ICE rhetoric following the incident.
"The rhetoric against the men and women of ICE is skyrocketing, especially by members of Congress," Homan said Monday on Fox News. "We have senators, we have congresspeople [who] compare ICE to the Nazis, compare ICE to racists, and it just continues. So the public thinks, well, if a member of Congress can attack ICE, why can't we?"
Homan cautioned that if the rhetoric doesn’t stop, "it's a matter of time [before] one of the ICE officers goes down or a criminal goes down. We've already seen an officer go down.”
Attacks on federal agents and ICE officers are up nearly 700 percent compared to last year, Homan noted.
12 people were involved in an ambush on ICE officers outside a facility in Texas, where gunmen with ARs waited to mow them down.
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) July 8, 2025
Officers found a flag that read “Resist Fascism. Fight Oligarchy” and flyers that read “Fight ICE terror with class war.”
Democrat Party owns this. pic.twitter.com/LikZWvNAfA
NEW: TEN people charged by Feds with attempted murder in horrifying ambush at ICE facility in Alvarado, TX on 4th of July. This marks TWO ambushes on ICE facilities in Texas between Friday and Monday. pic.twitter.com/avfSKYmDTk
— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) July 8, 2025
