This week saw 29-year-old Joshua Jahn open fire on an ICE facility in Dallas, leaving two people wounded and a third victim dead.

The attack brought outrage towards California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who was recently caught equating immigration enforcement with "authoritarianism."

Newsom accuses ICE of "disappearing" people

As Breitbart columnist John Nolte pointed out, Newsom's comments came during a Tuesday evening interview with far-left comedian Stephen Colbert.

Just last night, Gavin Newsom was on Colbert using absurd, inflammatory rhetoric to attack ICE as “authoritarian” secret police.

“Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing… ‘is authoritarianism hyperbolic?’ Bullsh*t we’re being hyperbolic.” pic.twitter.com/5PhOf3hSPJ

— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) September 24, 2025

Nolte argued that Newsom's claim that ICE agents are "disappearing" people is providing a rationale for unstable people to respond violently.

"What is a moral and virtuous person supposed to do about masked men who jump out of cars and disappear people, if not kill them?" the columnist asked. "After all, disappearing people is pure evil, no?"

Rep. Jasmine Crockett likens ICE to "slave patrols"

Nolte stressed that Newsom is not alone in demonizing ICE agents, as Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett has done so as well, with the latest example coming less than two weeks ago.

"As somebody who understands history, when I see ICE, I see slave patrols," the Democratic congresswoman was quoted as telling MSNBC.

"Now, I never lived through the slave patrol period. But if you know the history of policing in this country, then you understand that they were born out of slave patrols," Crockett declared.

Meanwhile, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem posted on social media, calling out the statements from Newsom and Crockett without mentioning either by name.

Noem: "Dehumanization" of ICE agents "has consequences"

"These horrendous killings must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences," Noem wrote following the Dallas shooting.

"Comparing ICE day in and day out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences," the secretary stressed.

Noem emphasized how "[t]he men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, we just want to go home to our families at night."

"The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop. We are praying for the victims and their families," she went on to add.