The FBI has arrested one of the leftists who attempted to murder federal immigration and other law enforcement officers in Prairieland, Texas, on July 4.
The Independence Day attack was unsuccessful. But Benjamin Hanil Song was among at least 11 leftist goons who ambushed the officers, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has alleged. Prosecutors charged 10 of them last week.
Frighteningly, Song is a former Marine, which raises the question of how many far-left subversives are either currently in or have served in the U.S. military. In April, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) raided an illegal-alien nightclub for which active-duty soldiers provided security.
As The New American reported last week, citing a federal criminal complaint, the raid on the Prairieland facility in Alvarado, just south of Dallas, began when the gang attacked the officers with fireworks just after 10:35 p.m.
Ten minutes after that initial attack, “one or two individuals broke off from the main group and began to graffiti and damage vehicles and a guard structure in the parking lot at the facility,” the complaint alleges. The hateful graffiti included “Ice Pig” and “F*** You Pigs.”
An Alvarado cop arrived at 10:50, after officers attempted to speak with the attackers. They were hiding in ambuscade in nearby woods.
One of the gang in the woods fired on the cop and hit him in the neck, the criminal complaint alleges:
[An] assailant in the green mask … also opened fire at the unarmed DHS correctional officers. … [T]he assailants shot approximately 20 to 30 rounds at the Correctional Officers. Police later recovered spent 5.56 caliber casings at the locations of both of the shooters. That caliber is typically used with AR-15-style rifles.
The shooting was captured on both CCTV and the [Alvarado Police Department] officer’s body-worn camera.
Police later found a Franklin Armory AR-15-style rifle…. The rifle had a bullet jammed in the chamber…. A second AR-15-style rifle was found abandoned in the woods across from the Prairieland Detention Center, in the vicinity of spent 5.56 casings, along with two body armor plate carriers with loaded AR-15 magazines. A pistol magazine was also recovered nearby.
The attack was clearly planned and involved military-style accoutrements. Cops who caught the fleeing attackers seized 12 sets of body armor along with myriad firearms and loaded magazines.
Cops also found flyers with the communist slogans “FIGHT ICE TERROR WITH CLASS WAR!” and “FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS.” “RESIST FACISM — FIGHT OLIGARCHY,” a flag said.
Military planning was also clearly involved in the attack. Aside from the guns, ammo, and gear, one suspect carried two cellphones in a “Faraday bag,” which is “used to block certain electromagnetic signals, including phone signals and are commonly used by criminal actors to try to prevent law enforcement from tracking location information through cell phones,” the criminal complaint explains.
Charges against the 10 include three counts of attempted murder.
The misfits reside in Texas:
Now, Song is in custody.
Federal authorities issued a warrant on Song on July 9. The FBI put him on its Most Wanted List, then posted a Blue Alert. Blue Alerts are sent to the media and law enforcement to help law enforcement apprehend “violent criminals who have killed, or seriously injured an officer in the line of duty,” the program website says. The alerts are also issued when a suspect threatens law enforcement.
Song is charged with three counts each of attempted murder and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
Thus far, authorities have arrested 14 individuals in connection with the attack.
Last week, DHS released the criminal past of the 1,000 detainees at the Prairieland facility. They are not what one would call Rhodes scholars.
“Their offenses include molestation of a minor, sexual assault, murder, kidnapping, arson, aggravated assault and human trafficking,” DHS reported:
There are also almost 50 detainees who are members of foreign terrorist organization[s] or gangs — including MS-13 and Tren de Aragua — as well as 13 Known Suspected Terrorists.
The attack on Prairieland officers wasn’t the only one on July 4. In South Portland, Washington, federal prosecutors in Oregon allege, four leftists attacked an ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) office. One of the suspects is charged with assaulting a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon and possession of an unregistered destructive device. Two others are charged with assaulting a federal officer. One was charged with depredation of federal property.
On Tuesday, DHS reported that attacks on ICE agents have risen 830 percent since President Trump took office.
How many more individuals such as Song, a former Marine Corps reservist, have military experience or are still on active duty or in the reserves is unclear. But there are more, and likely many more. That much became clear, again, in April.
Then, during the DEA raid on the illegal nightclub in Colorado Springs, which ended in the capture of 114 illegal aliens and seizure of guns and drugs, agents also arrested soldiers stationed at nearby Fort Carson. They provided security and participated in the crimes at the club, which included “significant drug trafficking,” a DEA official said.