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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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1 posted on 09/24/2025 9:48:57 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

Yeah, but what did ‘they’ identify as?


2 posted on 09/24/2025 9:52:43 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Signalman

If this was supposed to be a mass shooting…this guy was not from the varsity team

What a waste of life all around


3 posted on 09/24/2025 9:53:00 AM PDT by silverleaf (M:“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Signalman

J. F’n kerry......”Is this where I can get me one of them ‘sniper’ rifles”.


4 posted on 09/24/2025 9:54:23 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Signalman

“He used a sniper rifle in the attack...”

Where do you buy one?.............🤔


5 posted on 09/24/2025 9:54:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: rktman

GMTA................


6 posted on 09/24/2025 9:55:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Signalman

The democrats have stirred up their foot soldiers and turned them loose on us. Expect more of this weekly.


7 posted on 09/24/2025 9:55:21 AM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: Signalman

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4327488/posts


8 posted on 09/24/2025 9:56:56 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Red Badger

“He used a sniper rifle in the attack...”

Where do you buy one?.............🤔

Where do you the rest of you snipe hunting supplies?


9 posted on 09/24/2025 9:57:22 AM PDT by john316 (JOSHUA 24:15 ...choose you this day whom ye will serve...)
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To: Signalman

AKA - violent Leftists....


10 posted on 09/24/2025 9:57:39 AM PDT by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists-Satanists: redundant labels.)
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To: Red Badger

It’s like an assault rifle only sneakier.


11 posted on 09/24/2025 9:58:22 AM PDT by ssapro (SSAPRO/ EXBP)
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To: silverleaf

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


12 posted on 09/24/2025 9:58:28 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Signalman

Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
NEW:

I did a background check on Joshua Jahn, the ICE shooter in Dallas, Texas.

Joshua Jahn’s profile picture from his now-wiped Facebook page per the background check results reveals ANTIFA and communist imagery. The profile photo is of an armed communist with the hammer and sickle.

The text reads GLORIOUS EXPOSITION, COMRADE.

He also has a previous conviction for selling Marijuana.


14 posted on 09/24/2025 9:59:17 AM PDT by CFW
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15 posted on 09/24/2025 9:59:43 AM PDT by CFW
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To: rktman

in the july 4 attack, there were, in fact, two trannies involved so your question is entirely appropriate


16 posted on 09/24/2025 9:59:46 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: Signalman
If I remember correctly, Oswald was involved with a transvestite cabal in his circle of associates leading up to JFK assassination.

I know this next thing is movie fiction, but Hollywood has a lot of source info in writing scripts.

Blue Velvet

Silence of the Lambs

It seems like writers know of a predisposition of the tyranny crowd for horrific violence.

"Make the people believe in absurdities and you can make them commit atrocities"

-Voltaire.

17 posted on 09/24/2025 9:59:56 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: Signalman

Just another out of control nuanced moderate.There has been spate of out of control nuanced moderates shooting from rooftops. You can be called “a compromise nazi” by the left only so long before you lose it


18 posted on 09/24/2025 10:01:17 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: Signalman

Shooting detainees because you hate ICE is about as productive as shooting sick people because you hate hospitals.


19 posted on 09/24/2025 10:01:31 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Signalman
He used a sniper rifle in the attack,

oh, NOOOOOooooo!!! We gotsta ban dem deadly babykilling SNIPER RIFLES.

20 posted on 09/24/2025 10:02:44 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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