Republicans have posted messages on social media praising ICE and, in some cases, blaming Democrats and “the far-left” for the shooting.<\/p>\n
While law enforcement officials have not yet provided a detailed look at the shooter’s motive, FBI Director Kash Patel said on X\u00a0<\/a>that an initial review of evidence indicated it was \u201cideological.\u201d The post oincluded a photo that showed an unspent shell casing engraved with the words \u201cANTI-ICE.\u201d<\/p>\n Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on X\u00a0<\/a>that \u201chorrendous killings must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted an \u201cI stand with ICE\u201d graphic\u00a0on X.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cDemocrats must stop demonizing the heroic men and women of ICE who are just doing their jobs to keep Americans safe,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n Several Republican lawmakers posted on social media that they were praying for those who were shot.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re praying for the victims and their families,\u201d House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said on X<\/a>. \u201cOur brave ICE officers put their lives on the line every day to make this country safer, but they continue to face unprecedented violence. It MUST STOP.\u201d<\/p>\n Dallas police said at a news conference that no ICE officers. The victims were detainees, authorities said.<\/p>\n The shooting comes amid a recent spate of violence against political figures, including conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated less than two weeks ago, and Democratic state lawmakers in Minnesota, who were targeted in June in shootings that killed state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband.<\/p>\n Many Democrats have decried the administration\u2019s immigration crackdown, in some cases slamming it\u00a0as unconstitutional<\/a>, \u201cchaos<\/a>\u201d and an \u201cauthoritarian<\/a>\u201d tactic. California Gov. Gavin Newsom\u00a0signed a bill\u00a0<\/a>Saturday to ban immigration agents from covering their faces during operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republicans have posted messages on social media praising ICE and, in some cases, blaming Democrats and “the far-left”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-41927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}