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Radio host Ben Ferguson sounded the alarm on Fox Report this week, warning that the drumbeat of hostility toward ICE is turning dangerous and deadly for federal agents who simply do their jobs protecting American communities. He pointed out what any patriotic American can see: vilification from elected officials and activists removes the very lines that keep political disagreement from becoming real-world violence. The warning isn’t rhetoric; it’s common sense and a call to stop demonizing people who enforce our laws and defend our neighborhoods.
The Department of Homeland Security has now confirmed that threats against ICE personnel have exploded, reporting an eye‑popping surge in death threats and assaults on officers over the past year. DHS officials say death threats surged by thousands of percent and that doxxing, stalking, and direct threats against agents and their families have become routine — a fact that should horrify every decent, law‑abiding citizen.
Those threats have not been abstract. DHS briefings and reporting have pointed to chilling examples: social‑media bounties allegedly posted offering money for the murder of agents, livestreamed harassment, and voicemail threats aimed at officers’ spouses and children. When anonymous mobs online are encouraged — implicitly or explicitly — by high‑profile rhetoric, the result is predictable: some people escalate from words to violent acts.
Washington cannot pretend this is merely partisan football. DHS spokespeople have explicitly blamed so‑called sanctuary politicians and inflammatory comparisons of ICE to historical evil for fueling a climate that makes violence more likely. If public servants and media personalities keep equating law enforcement with tyrants, they should not be surprised when fringe actors take those metaphors as permission to act.
Conservative Americans should be unapologetic in defending ICE officers who face this unprecedented abuse while enforcing immigration laws that protect our citizens. We can demand compassion and better immigration policy, but we will not accept campaign‑style scapegoating that endangers men and women who wake up every day to confront hardened criminals. Political theater that calls for abolition or paints agents as evil must be called out by leaders on both sides before more lives are put at risk.
Law and order means protecting those who enforce the law, and it means prosecuting anyone who threatens or attacks federal officers to the fullest extent. The federal arrests and prosecutions tied to anti‑ICE violence are a start, but elected Democrats who have trafficked in dehumanizing rhetoric owe the country a plainspoken apology and a commitment to stop. Americans who cherish safety and decency should demand nothing less.
This is not a right‑left parlor debate; it’s a decision about whether we keep a civil society where disagreements stay on the ballot box and off the battlefield. Patriots must stand firmly with law enforcement, insist on accountability for violent rhetoric, and restore the common decency that once kept political fights from becoming mortal dangers for public servants.
