This post was originally published on this site.
A Virginia school principal was detained earlier this month on suspicion of plotting to ambush Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, highlighted the incident on Wednesday as evidence of growing hostility towards federal Law Enforcement.
ICE agents are facing a significant increase in violence by 2025. The DHS reported 238 assaults from January 31 to November 21, just in that time period.
She told Fox News Digital that “they [DHS agents] are willing to risk their lives each and every day in order to get rid of the worst criminals including murderers, terrorists, pedophiles and gangs.”
McLaughlin stated that officers and their families are facing a level of violence and threat never before seen.
Two days earlier, an off-duty officer had overheard the Virginia Beach school principal and his brother discussing attacks in Nevada on federal officers using firearms that fired multiple rounds.
McLaughlin said: “It is chilling to think that a person, let alone a child teacher, would plan to ambush ICE officers and kill them — even going so far as to say that they would get a rifle of high caliber that could penetrate the bulletproof vests worn by law enforcement.”
She made similar remarks to those she made in October to the Washington Examiner.
She said, “These are the results of conduct and rhetoric from sanctuary politicians and activists that encourage illegal aliens resist arrest.”
“Resisting an arrest puts the safety and security of illegal aliens law-enforcement as well as the public in danger.” She said that illegal aliens are ramming vehicles into our law enforcement officers, a situation which has increased by more than 1000%.
McLaughlin blamed the violence on rhetoric from left-wing opposition.
She added, “These are the results of the conduct and rhetoric of sanctuary politicaland activist who encourage illegal aliens resist arrest.”
NEWSLETTER SIGNUP
Subscribe to our newsletter! Get updates on all the latest news in Virginia.
