Considering the astronomical rise in violence against ICE agents in 2025 - DHS estimates it at a 700 percent increase - federal law enforcement agencies are stepping up their efforts to find the people who are making threats in hopes of avoiding violent scenarios like the ones we've recently seen play out.

As RedState previously reported, Acting US Attorney Nancy Larson announced Monday that charges of attempted murder would be filed against ten leftist agitators who allegedly planned an ambush of ICE personnel at the Alvaredo, Texas Prairieland Detention Facility late on the evening of July 4th, shooting a police officer who arrived to investigate in the neck.

"It was a planned ambush with the intent to kill ICE corrections officers,” Larson stated. “Make no mistake, this was not a peaceful protest. It was indeed an ambush." The disturbing incident happened just days before a similar one in McAllen at a Border Patrol sector annex, where a lone shooter was gunned down. "Two officers and a Border Patrol employee were injured" in the incident, according to DHS. 

SEE ALSO: Attempted Ambush of Border Patrol Agents in McAllen, Texas, Suspect Did Not Survive

And now, the day after a former San Antonio City Council candidate who called for ICE agents in LA to be shot down was told by DHS that they'd be in touch soon, ICE revealed they'd arrested a New York man who allegedly posted threatening messages on X:

An investigation by ICE Homeland Security Investigations Buffalo has resulted in the July 1 arrest of 43-year-old Matthew White. White, of Jamestown, New York, was charged by criminal complaint with communicating interstate threats for allegedly making social media posts threatening to kill ICE personnel. In one post, he allegedly threatened to target an individual’s children.

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On June 4, White voluntarily spoke with investigators and allowed them to extract and copy the contents of his phone. Investigators recovered a number of threatening posts on X, including:

• On April 18, White posted, “Kill them all, ICE is the new age gestapo, stop them.”
• On April 29, White shared a video clip of Border Czar Tom Homan posted by an X user “America,” and commented, “Then understand that if your ICE agents don’t show proof of identity and a signed warrant, we will kill them.”
• In late April, White posted multiple threatening and violent public comments in response to coverage of several ICE arrest operations, including an ICE arrest operation inside a Virginia courthouse that occurred in April 2025. White posted, “I can’t wait to put a bullet into this guy’s brain, but first his children.”

I found two of the three tweets ICE referenced. Presumably, the third one - about the children - has been deleted. I am also including the posts to which White was responding:

In other tweets, White talked about being a gay man who felt discriminated against, and he also chastised people who pushed back on wokeness, and in some cases, again used violent language. 

In one tweet to Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham, White wrote, "Stop using woke as a word to describe culture, you're not even a woman, show us your d*** b*****, I hate you so much, I dream of kicking your decapitated head down my driveway."

In their announcement of White's arrest, ICE noted that he "made an initial appearance on the afternoon of July 1 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy and was released on conditions." There's no word yet about a court date being set. Stay tuned.

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