The Domestic Terror Threat Against ICE
A reminder that agents remain a terrorism target by those who oppose borders and immigration law enforcement
By Todd Bensman on January 23, 2019
Last summer, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Claire Grady issued a warning to employees that they were under "heightened threat" based on "specific and credible threats that have been leveled against certain DHS employees and a sharp increase in the overall number of general threats against DHS employees."
Among those she was referencing were agents of DHS's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who, as a group, had come under threat from violent extremists furious over the interior enforcement of immigration law and President Trump's policies. As I wrote at the time, extremists issued implied threats and encouraged the murder of ICE agents from mostly anonymous online perches, as do ISIS propagandists who become the targets of hellfire missiles overseas because their incitement has proven so mortally effective.
https://cis.org/Bensman/Domestic-Terror-Threat-Against-ICE
