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Motive Emerges In Shooting At ICE Facility
Trending Politics ^ | 9/24/2025 | Mark Steffen

Posted on 09/24/2025 9:48:57 AM PDT by Signalman

A lone shooter who opened fire on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Wednesday morning left agents with chilling messages explaining why their workplace was being targeted in the brazen attack.

The gunman, who initial reports described as a white male, shot himself after being confronted by responding officers on a nearby rooftop. He used a sniper rifle in the attack, according to ICE Director Todd Lyons.

At a press conference, FBI Special Agent in Charge R. Joseph Rothrock said the Dallas, Texas detention center was likely targeted because the shooter had a deeply-held animosity for ICE.

“What I can also tell you is that early evidence that we’ve seen from rounds that were found near the suspected shooter contain messages that are anti-ICE in nature,” he explained.

The shooting is the second to unfold at a Texas ICE facility this year. On July 4, a group of assailants stormed an ICE facility near Fort Worth, wounding one employee in the neck. A dozen suspects were arrested in connection with the coordinated attack.

On Wednesday, the attacker’s playbook seemed eerily familiar.

“This is just the most recent example of this type of attack,” Rothrock added.

Earlier that morning, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X that the shooting resulted in “multiple injuries and fatalities” and also confirmed that the shooter took his own life. Later reports confirmed that at least one person is dead and three others were wounded.

“While we don’t know the motive yet, we know that our ICE law enforcement is facing unprecedented violence against them. It must stop,” Noem said. “Please pray for the victims and their families.”

Images from the scene showed a heavy police presence, with dozens of vehicles flashing their lights and cordoning off the facility, which sits less than 30 minutes outside downtown Dallas.

Fox News reported that the shooting occurred when detainees were being brought into a port of the facility, where the gunman was able to strike at least three people.

Also this year, a gunman was killed after storming the offices of the U.S. Border Patrol before being shot and killed.

President Donald Trump and immigration authorities have accused Democratic politicians of inciting violence against ICE officers by referring to them as Nazis and “Gestapo” soldiers.

“You impede a federal ICE officer, you’re going to jail,” border czar Tom Homan said in July after DHS reported a 700% increase in threats against ICE agents.

“You put hands on an officer, you’re going to jail. You knowingly harbor and conceal an illegal alien, you’re going to jail. You throw a rock at an ICE officer, you’re going to jail. You damage a government vehicle, you’re going to jail. This s**t stops now.”

“I said, if the rhetoric continues against ICE officers in the Border Patrol, there will there will be bloodshed.” Homan added. “When you got senators and congressmen comparing ICE to Nazis, racists, Gestapo. It’s just never-ending, and when an average citizen hears that kind of language from a member of Congress, they feel, you know, the nuts on the left… they feel emboldened.”


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To: Signalman

“...early evidence that we’ve seen from rounds that were found near the suspected shooter contain messages that are anti-ICE in nature,”

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This isn’t going to jibe well with the WaPo and NYT.

They are either going to bury this incident as fast as possible, or they are going to try to continue to say it was a crazy white supremacist gun nut, or they are going to claim that they “anti-ICE” explanation released by the feds is a Trump conspiracy.


21 posted on 09/24/2025 10:03:31 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Red Badger

see post 4


22 posted on 09/24/2025 10:04:36 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: john316

“Sniper Rifle” is the NEW and improved, focus-group tested ala Josh Sugarman’s “Assault Rifle,” or the earlier “Saturday Night Special” or “High-Powered Rifle” or any of a dozen other scary phrases the victim disarmament crowd has cobbled together and fed to the waste stream media over the decades.

ANY rifle a “sniper” uses is a “sniper rifle” by obvious definition.

The fact the bullets were on a CLIP makes me think this was a bolt-action Springfield 1903 or Mauser or Carcano , K31 or some other antiquated wall hanger/safe queen type of rifle just about every serious gun owner has at least one of.

“Sniper Rifle” my white irish butt.


23 posted on 09/24/2025 10:04:44 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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To: ConservativeDude

Yup. Transassins!


24 posted on 09/24/2025 10:05:16 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: blackdog

“Silence of the Lambs,” like “Psycho,” is loosely inspired by an actual murderer, Ed Gein.


25 posted on 09/24/2025 10:07:38 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12- 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Signalman

Has Kimmel blamed Charlie Kirk yet?


26 posted on 09/24/2025 10:10:28 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I pray that the sleeping giant has finally awakened and been filled with a terrible resolve.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Sarah Barracuda wrote: “I knew the second I heard about this that the perp was aiming for ice agents but struck a few illegals instead that’s why he killed himself he knew the left would go after him for being a bad shot”

Several reports that he fired at the van which could mean he wasn’t aiming at anyone.


27 posted on 09/24/2025 10:11:43 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: z3n

I bet some Fed/Austin database admin probably trying like hell to update records to show Jahn voted for Trump47.


28 posted on 09/24/2025 10:13:20 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (!)
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To: normbal

1903 Springfield, K98 Mauser, and Mosin-Nagant M1891-30 rifles were, in fact, used by professional military snipers.


29 posted on 09/24/2025 10:13:23 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Joe 6-pack

From what I’ve gathered, the dumbass shot into a parked van loaded with detainees.


30 posted on 09/24/2025 10:13:49 AM PDT by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: DugwayDuke

Well he wrote anti ice messages on the bullets(Whats up with these shooters writing their crap on bullets all of a sudden!) so his intent was to kill ICE agents, but instead got illegals. I bet this guy will turn out to be Antifa


31 posted on 09/24/2025 10:15:42 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: CFW

I knew it, ANTIFA


32 posted on 09/24/2025 10:17:07 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Signalman

What brand of SSRI was he on?


33 posted on 09/24/2025 10:19:09 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Signalman

Read two different reports about this early this morning - both mentioned several times in the first two paragraphs that the shooter was a “White male.” I’m sure they were trying to imply that he was a Trump MAGA supporter hunting and killing innocent illegals.

They had to get the “White Male Shooter” narrative out there ASAP before the truth comes out.

May well be a White male - a sniveling, cowardly, Trump-hating, antifa type.


34 posted on 09/24/2025 10:22:30 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Signalman

Disappearing from the MSM in 3.... 2.... 1....


35 posted on 09/24/2025 10:24:43 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: Signalman
And posted on Instapundt about the shooter: The sniper's name is Joshua Jahn. His mother is a psycho leftist, and so was he. This is one of his social media profiles now pulled with a cartoon of a gun totting Commie.


36 posted on 09/24/2025 10:26:05 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Motive: another crazed Antifa Leftist encouraged by the leftist media and Democrats


37 posted on 09/24/2025 10:29:16 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Signalman

If our side wasn’t above board and honest we could have an agent plant a message on the killer’s body saying: “Gavin Newsom, I am your soldier today. I love you. Kill ICE.”


38 posted on 09/24/2025 10:29:32 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Signalman

39 posted on 09/24/2025 10:30:22 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: rktman
Transassins!

May I steal that?

40 posted on 09/24/2025 10:38:36 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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