Feds to increase security at ICE buildings after Dallas attack

(NewsNation) — Officials with the Department of Homeland Security accidental the bureau volition instantly summation information astatine Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities crossed the U.S. pursuing Wednesday’s shooting astatine an ICE tract bureau successful Dallas.

A gunman killed 1 migrant detainee and earnestly wounded 2 others during what DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called an onslaught "motivated by hatred for ICE."

McLaughlin said the Texas incidental is the latest successful a drawstring of “unprecedented acts of unit against ICE instrumentality enforcement,” which has included weaponry threats, assaults and the online doxing of officers and their families.

“Our ICE officers are facing a much than 1,000% summation successful assaults against them,” McLaughlin said successful a prepared statement. “For months, we’ve been informing politicians and the media to code down their rhetoric astir ICE instrumentality enforcement earlier idiosyncratic was killed.”

The Trump administration’s usage of ICE officers to enforce migration laws and deport undocumented individuals has generated controversy, with critics saying that different law-abiding migrants person been swept up successful raids. The White House says its main precedence has been to wide the U.S. of migrants who perpetrate superior oregon convulsive offenses, which it has called "the worst of the worst."

In June, President Donald Trump federalized the National Guard and sent troops to Los Angeles erstwhile protests implicit ICE workplace raids turned convulsive successful the mostly Hispanic city. The Republican president has criticized alleged sanctuary cities including L.A. and Chicago for refusing to enactment with national migration authorities.

In the Dallas onslaught Wednesday, constabulary judge the shooter opened occurrence from a adjacent gathering astir 6:40 a.m. Rounds recovered adjacent the suspected shooter had messages that were “anti-ICE successful nature,” said Joseph Rothrock, FBI peculiar cause successful complaint of the Dallas Field Office.

No instrumentality enforcement unit were injured. The fishy died by suicide, officials said.