Democrats and their supporters have engaged in increasingly hyperbolic rhetoric and violent threats -- in some cases, actual instances of violence -- against the agents and officers of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who are just doing their jobs to enforce existing laws against illegal immigration.

Last week, an upstate New York man was arrested and charged with making multiple threats against ICE agents and at least one agent's children, Breitbart reported.

As President Donald Trump and other administration officials have noted, however, those threats and acts of violence will not stop ICE from continuing its mission to locate, apprehend, and ultimately deport criminal illegal aliens.

Man arrested for threatening to kill ICE agents, their children

The ICE-Homeland Security Investigations office in Buffalo announced this week that Matthew White, 43, of Jamestown, New York, had been arrested and charged federally with communicating interstate threats via multiple social media posts in April, including one in which he threatened to kill an ICE agent's children.

An investigation of a series of White's X platform posts was launched at the end of April and, following a voluntary interview with White in early June, in which investigators obtained access to his cellphone, evidence was recovered of the multiple threats of violence that had been made.

"Kill them all, ICE is the new age gestapo, stop them," White posted on April 18, then posted again on April 29 in reply to a video clip of Border Czar Tom Homan, "Then understand that if your ICE agents don’t show proof of identity and a signed warrant, we will kill them."

Investigators also found a comment White had posted in response to news of ICE arrests at a Virginia courthouse, in which he said of an ICE agent featured in a photo, "I can’t wait to put a bullet into this guy’s brain, but first his children."

Threats of violence will not be tolerated, especially against children

According to a press release from New York U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo, White was arrested and charged on July 1 with communicating interstate threats, for which he could serve a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison, if convicted.

He made an initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy that same day, and was subsequently released from custody on unspecified conditions.

"The defendant stands accused of making vile threats against officers and agents who risk their lives every day to uphold an oath they swore to protect the public -- even those who wish them harm," ICE-HSI Buffalo Special Agent-in-Charge Erin Keegan said in a statement. "There is no place in our community for such hate against any human beings, including and especially innocent children."

"Let it be known, HSI Buffalo is unflinchingly committed to finding and investigating any individuals who threaten, or who are intent on hurting, members of our law enforcement community," she added.

ICE agents increasingly under assault, but remain "undeterred"

On the same day that White was arrested and charged, Fox News reported that the Department of Homeland Security had revealed a nearly 700% increase in the number of physical assaults against ICE agents and officers since last year. Indeed, from Jan. 21, 2024, through June 30, 2024, there were just 10 recorded assaults against ICE personnel, but that number soared to 79 assault incidents over the same period in 2025.

A White House release on Thursday highlighted that surge in assaults against ICE, as well as three recent violent incidents this month, and attributed it to being "a direct consequence of dangerous, inflammatory rhetoric from Democrat politicians," of which more than a dozen examples of inciteful quotes from elected Democratic lawmakers were provided.

Just one day earlier, in a release that highlighted some of the worst criminal illegal aliens apprehended by ICE, the White House said in a statement, "The brave men and women of ICE are under siege by deranged Democrats -- but undeterred in their mission. Every day, these heroes put their own lives on the line to get the worst of the worst -- criminal illegal immigrant killers, rapists, gangbangers, and other violent criminals -- off our streets and out of our neighborhoods."