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ICE Shooting Sparks Political Tensions

We begin with the tragic news out of Dallas, a shooting at an ICE facility that left one detainee dead and two in critical condition. The shooter, who acted from a rooftop and later took his own life, left behind bullet casings marked with “anti-ICE,” according to images posted by FBI Director Kash Patel. The FBI is treating this as targeted violence. No ICE agents were harmed, but the attack — happening so soon after the Charlie Kirk assassination — immediately touched off discussion about the broader implications of political rhetoric and violence.

This isn’t easy to talk about. For years now, I’ve maintained that politically motivated violence is almost never connected to mainstream ideology — that it tends to come from the fringes. And yet, this time, the targets of the violence and the language that surrounds them are very much in the mainstream. ICE has been routinely compared to Nazis — to secret police — in public conversation. Charlie Kirk was widely denounced as a malignant force in American life. When violence follows that kind of discourse, even if indirectly, it raises hard questions.