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Kash Patel Reveals More Evidence Pointing To ICE Facility Shooter’s Motives

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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Kash Patel provided more evidence on Thursday that the alleged shooter who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility was motivated by his hatred for the agency.

The alleged shooter, Joshua Jahn, opened fire into the ICE facility in Dallas, Texas, killing two detainees before taking his own life from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Wednesday. Patel announced in a Thursday X post that the suspected killer downloaded a document listing the location of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) facilities, searched apps that tracked ICE agents and left a handwritten note indicating his intention to attack agents.

“This @FBI is committed to providing timely updates, as promised: The perp downloaded a document titled ‘Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management’ containing a list of DHS facilities. He conducted multiple searches of ballistics and the ‘Charlie Kirk Shot Video’ between 9/23-9/24,” Patel said. “Between 8/19-8/24, he searched apps that tracked the presence of ICE agents. One of the handwritten notes recovered read, ‘Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?'”

Patel initially released a photograph of the alleged shooter’s bullet casings, which had been engraved with the term, “ANTI-ICE.”

Despite the evidence, many in the liberal media attempted to accuse President Donald Trump’s administration of spewing rhetoric that led to attacks on illegal immigrants. CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers made this suggestion because no ICE agents got killed, while Christopher O’Leary, Senior Vice President for Global Operations at The Soufan Group, said on MSNBC that the alleged shooter was motivated by right-wing violence.

This incident is the latest of several other attacks on ICE facilities since Trump reentered office in January. Authorities have charged at least 11 individuals in connection with an ambush on an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas, in July, which led to the injury of a police officer who was shot in the neck. An active shooter also shot at Border Patrol agents at a facility in McAllen, Texas, in July.

Democrats have compared ICE to Nazis and accused the agency of being authoritarian for raiding and arresting illegal immigrant criminals, many of whom have committed heinous acts. Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz labeled ICE as the “modern-day Gestapo” during a commencement speech in May, Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called ICE a “rogue agency that should not exist,” and Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett compared ICE agents to “slave patrols.”

Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said on Aug. 25 that ICE is “beyond reform and should be abolished.”

Omar also pushed NBC News’ false report, which claimed that ICE agents detained a 5-year-old autistic girl to intimidate her illegal immigrant father to turn himself in. The outlet later issued a correction, stating that it had “mischaracterized” the agents’ activities.