Washington Examiner Chief Political Correspondent Byron York said the assassination of Charlie Kirk moved violence on the left to a “terrible new level.”
York’s appearance on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle comes after two people were killed early Wednesday morning in a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, Texas.
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“A major part of it up to now, including Dallas, has been violence directed at stopping the enforcement of immigration laws,” he said.
“We saw that, and you covered this, the July 4th antifa attack on ICE in Alvarado, Texas, where you had 10 antifa radicals [and] they had two AR-15s. They had pistols. They had bulletproof vests. They were there to kill,” York added.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday designating antifa as a terrorist organization.
Elaborating on this point, York discussed the “riots” against the enforcement of immigration law, specifically in Los Angeles, California.
York also highlighted democratic lawmakers making national headlines for confronting ICE agents.
“And then you see on the sort of showbiz level a number of democratic lawmakers who have protested and gotten themselves into confrontations with law enforcement so they can be seen protesting and being arrested protesting ICE,” York said. “The enforcement of immigration law is really the focus of so much of the ugly, ugly actions on the left.”
Laura Ingraham also spoke with York about the defacing of posters condemning political violence on college campuses.
York, in response, highlighted polls that show young people on the left are much more “tolerant” of the idea of using violence to settle political differences.
“One of the things that happens and just the incredible shock that settled in after the Kirk assassination … I think a number of people kind of went underground and now they’re coming back up saying ‘yeah, yeah, that was a good thing, that was a right thing; you should kill Nazis,’” York said.
“I mean, you see that kind of stuff on the web among young people, and I think that is reflected in those polls we see,” York added.