DHS Pleads with Far-Left Public Officials to Tone Down Anti-ICE Rhetoric Amid 1,600 Percent Increase in Assaults

To the shock of no one, comparing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to Adolf Hitler’s Gestapo creates a volatile situation when those agents attempt to carry out the law.

The Department of Homeland Security published a news release Thursday stating that from Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump’s first day in office, to Sept. 20, 2026, there have been 647 assaults on officers.

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Since President Trump unleashed ICE to do their jobs, assaults against them have risen by more than 1,600% in the first year and a half of the administration,” he said, adding, “This is the result of the vicious lies being spread by sanctuary politicians and their foot soldiers who are involved in anti-ICE riots and other acts of violence. DHS is calling on these sanctuary politicians to stop attacking federal law enforcement, stop putting the needs of illegal aliens ahead of the safety of American citizens, and to start working with us to make America safe again.”

Indeed, leftist politicians our solely to blame for officers being unsafe on the job.

Listen to Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz call ICE the “modern-day Gestapo” during a commencement address to the University of Minnesota in May 2025.

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Joining him in this reckless rhetoric was disgraced public official and former California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell saying ICE had reminded him of “some KGB officer in Russia.”

Swalwell knows a thing or two about the communist world’s secret operations against its enemies considering he had a sexual relationship with Chinese spy in 2015.

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Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker made his own Nazi comparisons during an appearance on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition.”

“You shouldn’t have to walk around with papers the way that they did in the early days of Nazi Germany to prove that you belong and that you’re not one of them,” he said.

JB Pritzker demonized ICE, says ICE arresting criminal illegal aliens is the same as “Nazi Germany”

Today an anti-ICE lunatic shot up an ICE facility.

Any comment @JBPritzker?https://t.co/4VdEUE34dA

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 25, 2025

These people are historically inept, woefully ignorant, and completely moronic for these comparisons.

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They’ve reversed course.

Democrats will tolerate as much illegal immigration as possible and they want to do nothing to stop it.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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