Gunman kills 1 detainee, wounds 2 more at Dallas ICE facility, officials say
Police block off the street close to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office after a reported shooting, in Dallas on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) | AP
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees was killed and two more wounded in a shooting at a Dallas ICE facility on Wednesday that federal officials are investigating as an act of targeted violence.
No law enforcement personnel were injured in the attack, FBI Director Kash Patel wrote in a post on X and posted a photo of several rounds of ammunition, including one with the words “anti-ICE” written on it. Joe Rothrock, the FBI’s special agent in charge in Dallas, also said in a Wednesday press conference that rounds located near the suspected shooter contained anti-ICE messaging.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, also at the press conference, called for an end to rhetoric from politicians “demonizing ICE and demonizing CBP.”
“Look, in America we disagree,” he said. “That’s fine, that’s the democratic process, but your political opponents are not Nazis. We need to learn to work together without demonizing each other, without attacking each other.”
The gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The surviving victim is in critical condition, according to a DHS statement.
The incident comes just weeks after conservative organizer Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at a college campus in Utah, a political assassination that gripped the country and prompted President Donald Trump to promise consequences for the “radical left.”
And it comes with ICE in the middle of a recruitment drive that has pulled in over 150,000 applications, as Trump looks to hire 10,000 new agents and reach a million deportations a year.
“The obsessive attack on law enforcement, particularly ICE, must stop,” Vice President JD Vance said in a post on X after reports of the shooting emerged. “I’m praying for everyone hurt in this attack and for their families.”
Trump also weighed in on Wednesday, saying in a social media post that “this violence is the result of the Radical Left Democrats constantly demonizing Law Enforcement, calling for ICE to be demolished, and comparing ICE Officers to ‘Nazis.’”
This isn’t the first time the Dallas field office has stared down violence in recent weeks, DHS said in a statement. Late last month, officials issued a shelter-in-place order and local police sent in a bomb squad after a 36-year-old man came to the facility and claimed a bomb was in his backpack. He was later charged with making terroristic threats.
