Shooting came hours after Tom Homan warned that Democrats’ anti-ICE rhetoric is fueling violence
A gunman armed with tactical gear opened fire Monday morning at Border Patrol agents in what law enforcement says was a deliberate ambush outside a federal annex facility in McAllen, Texas, prompting agents and local police to return fire and kill the shooter.
“This morning an individual opened [fire] at the entrance of the United States Border Patrol sector annex in McAllen, Texas,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement to Fox News. “Both Border Patrol agents and local police helped neutralize the shooter.”
Police identified the shooter as 27-year-old Ryan Louis Mosqueda, who had “connections to an address in the city of Weslaco, Texas,” the New York Times reported.
One McAllen police officer was struck but is in stable condition, and two other officers were also injured, according to reports.
The incident came just hours after Trump administration border czar Tom Homan condemned the Friday attack on another Texas police officer near an ICE detention facility and warned that anti-ICE rhetoric from Democratic officials is fueling violence.
“The attack on ICE officers … is up nearly 700 percent now,” Homan said during a Fox News interview. “We have senators, we have congresspeople that compare ICE to the Nazis. … The rhetoric has to stop or it’s a matter of time before one of the ICE officers goes down.”
President Donald Trump has ramped up deportations of illegal immigrants following record-high illegal border crossings under the Biden administration. Under Homan, ICE has arrested over 158,000 illegal immigrants, 75 percent of whom have criminal convictions or pending charges, according to DHS data as of late April.
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