CAR ATTACKS ON ICE AGENTS SPIKED MORE THAN 3200 PERCENT IN A YEAR

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Car attacks on ICE agents spiked by more than 3,200% in a year, DHS reveals after Minnesota shooting

By Chris Nesi and Anna Young

Published Jan. 8, 2026

Updated Jan. 8, 2026, 4:49 p.m. ET

 

Car attacks on ICE officers have spiked — surging by some 3,200% over the past year, according to shocking data released Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security.

 

Federal officials said violent “radical rhetoric from sanctuary politicians” is to blame for vehicular attacks targeting ICE agents skyrocketing between Jan. 21, 2025, and Jan. 7, 2026, DHS data provided to The Post revealed.

 

Agents reported 66 attacks compared to only two during the same period in 2024, the data showed.

 

Federal immigration officers have also reported a 1,347% increase in assaults and a whopping 8,000% surge in death threats during the first year of President Trump’s second term.

 

“This unprecedented increase in violence in law enforcement is a direct result of sanctuary politicians and the media creating an environment that demonizes our law enforcement and encourages rampant assaults against them,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said.

 

“Dangerous criminals — whether they be illegal aliens or U.S. citizens — are assaulting law enforcement and turning their vehicles into weapons to attack law enforcement. Still, the brave men and women of DHS will not be deterred and will continue arresting the wrose of the worst criminal illegal aliens.

 

“Anyone who attacks law enforcement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

 

McLaughlin cited multiple occasions where Democratic politicians blasted federal immigration enforcement, with embattled Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz describing ICE agents as “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo” while speaking at a University of Minnesota Law School graduation in May 2025.

 

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries also called on citizens to “fight” Trump’s immigration enforcement “in the streets” just days after the president’s inauguration last January.

 

After an officer gunned down Minneapolis protester Renee Nicole Good during a confrontation Wednesday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey launched a furious, expletive attack on ICE.

 

“To ICE, get the f–k out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here,” Frey said during a fiery press conference after the deadly shooting, with Walz suggesting the state was “at war” with the federal government.

 

“Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.”

 

DHS claimed Good “weaponized” her car and tried to mow down the ICE agent before he fatally shot her in what federal authorities said was self-defense.

 

The troubling data on car attacks was released a day after Good, a 37-year-old mom, was killed.

 

Footage from the scene appears to show her striking an immigration officer with her car before he opened fire through the vehicle’s windshield and window.

 

DHS has claimed Good “weaponized” her car and tried to mow down the ICE agent before he fatally shot her in what federal authorities said was self-defense.

 

The ICE agent who fired the lethal shot was dragged 100 yards by an illegal migrant in Minnesota last June after his arm was trapped inside the vehicle during a traffic stop, The Post revealed Thursday.

 

The agent, whom The Post is not naming, was hospitalized with “significant injuries to his arm and hand,” requiring 33 stitches, but made a full recovery, McLaughlin said at the time.

 

Wednesday’s shooting poured gasoline on the long-smoldering tension between federal immigration agents and protesters who have fought back — at times violently — against the presence of agencies like ICE enforcing the law in their communities.

 

DHS has accused liberal leaders of stoking the flames, repeatedly urging them to dial back their blistering rhetoric amid the alarming uptick in violence against officers.

 

“This demonization is inspiring violence across the country,” McLaughlin stressed in September after anti-ICE gunman Joshua Jahn opened fire at the entrance of an ICE field office in Dallas, Texas.

 

“Our ICE officers are facing a more than 1000% increase in assaults against them. We have to turn down the temperature before someone else is killed. The violence must end.”