Dallas ICE officers are honored by Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin for their actions during the 2025 shooting at the Dallas ICE field office in Dallas, Monday, June 1, 2026.
Angela Piazza/The Dallas Morning News
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Monday lauded the work of three officers who showed courage under fire during the deadly 2025 shooting at a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. Mullin blamed Democrats and left-leaning activists for the sniper attack that left two dead.
A gunman with a rifle fired dozens of shots from a nearby rooftop in what federal authorities later described as a targeted attack against ICE employees. No federal employees were injured, but the shooting left two immigrants dead and wounded another.
The attacker, identified as Joshua Jahn, died by suicide.
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Christopher Pyne, Andres Goche and Marco Solis received a medal for distinguished service Monday for helping care for detainees while under fire. Pyne and Solis provided first aid to two detainees, said Robert Cerna, the deputy field office director for Dallas, while Goche was the first to call 911 and then pull multiple detainees from a transport van during the attack.
“The fact that they’re willing to sacrifice their lives for individuals that’s in their custody would speak volumes to what kind of law enforcement we have that work in ICE and at DHS,” said Mullin, who replaced Kristi Noem as DHS secretary in March.
The shooting was the second attack in 2025 at a North Texas ICE facility after the July Fourth attack on the Prairieland Detention Center about 30 miles south of Dallas. The Dallas shooting laid bare the dual realities of immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump’s administration: ICE officers had reason to fear for their lives, and so did migrants worried they might die in federal custody.
In the months that followed, the deaths of two U.S. citizens protesting ICE in Minnesota and the repeated clashes between protesters and federal agents raised the debate around immigration enforcement.
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The two detainees who died in the Texas sniper attack were Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, from El Salvador, and Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, from Mexico. Venezuelan Jose Andres Bordones-Molina was hit in the arm and shoulder, he told Univision.
Mullin said little about the three detainees who were shot Monday, telling reporters the shooting “should’ve never happened.” He blamed “the left” for the shooting and offered an apology.
“When the rhetoric we’re hearing from the left puts people’s lives at risk, which has happened here, we’re sorry,” he said. “What we did as officers is we responded and did everything we could to save as many lives that we possibly could during that tragic day, but it should’ve never taken place.”
Monday’s appearance was Mullin’s first time in Dallas since being confirmed as Homeland Security secretary. The secretary has traveled to various states since his March confirmation, going to North Carolina in April to highlight disaster relief efforts as a result of Hurricane Helene, which battered the state in 2024. He’s also made stops in El Paso and Oregon.
Mullin also spoke briefly about security measures for the FIFA World Cup, where the first game in North Texas is Sunday, June 14, between the Netherlands and Japan at what FIFA is calling Dallas Stadium.
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The 76-day DHS shutdown put the federal government behind in getting federal grants out to law enforcement agencies, Mullin said, but preparation for the event didn’t stop.
“Most officers aren’t getting very wealthy, they’re just providing a living, but they’re willing to do their job for free,” he said. “So, even during the shutdown, preparation didn’t stop.”