Assaults on ICE Officers Have Augmented 1,600% Since January 2025, According to DHS

Articles | September 26, 2026 | by Catholics for Catholics

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The Department of Homeland Security linked the increase in assaults on ICE officials with ‘hateful and violent rhetoric’ from politicians.

By Catholics for Catholics

The attacks against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have gone up considerably in recent months as the Trump administration has pressed hard on illegal immigration across the nation.

According to a story by the Epoch Times, under the Trump administration, there were 647 assaults against ICE officials from Jan. 20, 2025, to Sept. 20, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a press release on Thursday. The number of assaults represents an increase of 1,649 percent from the 37 assaults on ICE officials from Jan. 20, 2021, to Sept. 20, 2022, under the Biden administration.

Many U.S. lawmakers have criticized ICE during President Donald Trump’s second term, as the administration has enlarged detention and deportation operations throughout the United States. In the press release, the Department of Homeland Security called for politicians to end the use of “hateful and violent rhetoric” targeting ICE.

“The brave men and women of ICE, who are simply enforcing the laws mandated by Congress and protecting the American people, are under attack every single day. Since President Trump unleashed ICE to do their jobs, assaults against them have risen by more than 1,600% in the first year and a half of the administration,” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said, according to the statement.

Besides increased assaults on ICE officers, agents are also having to contend with more than 6,000 percent increase in threats, White House border czar Tom Homan, who was bestowed with the “Protector of America” award by Catholics for Catholics, told Epoch Times senior editor Jan Jekielek in an interview airing on Sept. 26, that ICE vehicle assaults have increased by 1,300 percent.

“I blame a lot of that on the misinformation being fed by some media to the American people,” Homan said. “It’s constant lies.”

Homan, the Border Czar, noted that ICE is not perfect and that agents will make mistakes. However, he said the agents are held accountable in those cases.