Antifa agitators are calling for further attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, as ICE agents already face an unprecedented wave of left-wing violence.
AnarchistNews.org, an anarcho-communist propaganda site popular among antifa militants, issued a call this week instructing “all anarchists across the country” to converge in the streets and “wage a carnival of war against ICE.”
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“Every fist that hurls a piece of concrete through a bank or an ICE agent’s car window has the potential to ignite a wildfire,” reads the call-to-action.
Citing mass deportations under President Donald Trump, the message outlines the revolutionary Left’s strategy of exploiting civil unrest to incite political violence, topple institutions, and stoke widespread chaos in furtherance of “becoming ungovernable.”
“[C]hannel hopelessness into a frenzy of outbursts,” the communiqué says, listing off accelerant acts, such as “nocturnal smash and grabs or spontaneous attacks on institutions,” to bring about a state of lawlessness. “With the ammunition of love and rage, we reclaim our lives with every momentary rupture against a world that can never be voted away.”
The anonymously authored edict, titled “A Call for Anarchist Action in America: Occupy and Disrupt ICE Facilities in Every City,” was published one day before a rooftop sniper, identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, shot up a Dallas immigration detention center on Wednesday in an apparent anti-ICE attack.
Though it injured two detainees and killed one other in ICE custody, the shooting is believed to be ideologically motivated against immigration authorities. Officials say an unspent shell casing discovered on the scene was engraved with the phrase “ANTI-ICE.”
According to a Thursday update on the shooting investigation from FBI Director Kash Patel, evidence up to this point indicates “a high degree of pre-attack planning.”
A data extraction found that the suspect downloaded a document containing a list of Homeland Security facilities, Patel said, and allegedly searched for apps that track the whereabouts of ICE agents.
Surveillance apps specially designed to monitor the movement of ICE officers are used in activist circles to disrupt deportation operations and accordingly alert illegal aliens of ICE activity. Sometimes those “on patrol” confront federal agents, leading to violent encounters.
Patel said investigators also obtained writings left behind by the shooter. According to Patel, one of the handwritten notes recovered read, “Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror.”
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Details on the shooter are still relatively scant. Jahn’s since-scrubbed profile picture on Facebook reportedly depicted an image of an armed communist captioned, “GLORIOUS EXPOSITION, COMRADE.”
The shooting in Dallas follows a July Fourth ambush on an ICE facility in nearby Alvarado by more than a dozen members of a suspected Texas antifa cell. In that highly coordinated attack, which also involved reconnaissance efforts, multiple gunmen positioned from various vantage points opened fire on officers they allegedly lured out outside, shooting a local officer in the neck.
Similar calls for attacks against ICE are appearing on Reddit as well, particularly on left-wing pages.
In response to a hoax about a U.S. citizen being “violently kidnapped by ICE,” accounts on the 50501 subreddit reportedly urged others to “start blasting.”
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“Shoot first. Ask later. Those are kidnappers. Take them out,” one Redditor wrote in the comments section.
“Lot of dudes not wearing Kevlar…[I’m just saying],” another account said of the arresting ICE agents depicted in the now-removed Reddit post.
“There are more on the Left with the pew pews [guns] than you might think,” a separate Reddit profile commented. “Karl Marx was very pew pew.” In the replies, a Redditor remarked, “Well since the king just took the capital city by force with the military,” referring to Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to combat crime in Washington, D.C., “perhaps it’s time to fight back if these people exist.”
Under a 50501 discussion thread reacting to a Customs and Border Protection agent shooting at a vehicle that sped off during an immigration stop after allegedly driving into two officers, Redditors took a more militant, accelerationist approach.
“They shot first,” one of the Reddit replies said. “It’s now open season on ICE!”
“Put the petal to the medal and smoke the mother f***ers,” ordered another.
“Let’s escalate,” an account commented. “I see no reason why we shouldn’t all be carrying and prepared at this point.”
“It’s time to stay strapped or get trapped American,” another Redditor agreed.
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50501, meaning “50 states, 50 protests, 1 movement,” is a nationwide left-wing contingent formed on Reddit to protest the policies of Trump’s second presidency. Notably, it was one of the organizers behind the “No Kings” day of demonstrations in June and continues to mobilize “resistance networks.”
The Washington Examiner contacted 50501 for comment.