Ted Cruz Rages at Democrats After Dallas ICE Facility Targeted by Shooter: ‘Your Political Opponents Are Not Nazis!’

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) raged at Democrats for “demonizing” ICE following an attack on a Dallas facility on Wednesday morning.

Cruz joined law enforcement officers and Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson (R) at a Wednesday press conference following the shooting where four people were shot and two died, including the gunman. Law enforcement did not confirm reports that the victims were detainees, but did say that no officers were harmed in the shooting.

Johnson pressed for “restraint” and “calm” while the investigation plays out, while Joe Rothrock, the FBI special agent in charge of the investigation, said “early evidence” showed there were “anti-ICE” messages written on the rounds found near the shooter.

Rothrock said the FBI is investigating the shooting as “targeted” violence. The same ICE facility was hit with a bomb threat a month prior, leading to a man’s arrest.

At the Wednesday press conference, Cruz blasted politicians who “demonize” ICE and push for agents to be “doxxed.” The senator mentioned the recent assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and pressed for politicians to stop throwing around words like “Nazi” to describe their opponents.

Cruz said:

This needs to stop. Violence is wrong. Politically motivated violence is wrong. It was two weeks ago today that we saw a political assassination in Utah that tore the heart out of much of this country. This is the third shooting in Texas directed at ICE or CBP. This must stop. To every politician who is using rhetoric demonizing ICE and demonizing CBP, stop! To every politician demanding that ICE agents be doxed and calling for people to go after their families, stop! This has very real consequences. Look, in America we disagree, that’s fine, that is the democratic process, but your political opponents are not Nazis! We need to learn to work together without demonizing each other, without attacking each other. And I want to say thank you. I want to say thank you to the brave men and women of law enforcement. I want to say thank you to The brave men and women of ICE and CBP and everyone who puts their lives on the to keep us safe. The divisive rhetoric tragically has real consequences.

Cruz acknowledged the motivation of the shooter is not known for a fact after a journalist brought up reports that the victims were detainees.

“My understanding is the details of who the victims are are still being ascertained, so I don’t want to go ahead of law enforcement releasing these details,” he said. “What they have said is that no law enforcement was injured, and so that’s a natural inference, but I don’t t know the details.”

FBI Director Kash Patel took to X on Wednesday to share a photo of the rounds found near the shooter.

“While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an idealogical motive behind this attack (see photo below). One of the unspent shell casings recovered was engraved with the phrase ‘ANTI ICE.’ More updates will be forthcoming,” he wrote.

https://www.twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1970877754221498599

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