Attacks on ICE agents have significantly increased, an 8,000 percent increase in death threats reported by the Department of Homeland Security in 2025 compared to the same period last year. Some sources also cite a 500 percent increase in all assaults on ICE agents.
Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin warned that criminals, including illegal aliens and U.S. citizens, are now using cars as weapons against federal agents, placing both officers and the public at risk. She emphasized that DHS officers will continue arresting the most violent criminal illegal aliens and that anyone who uses a vehicle to attack law enforcement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
As of October 27, 2025, ICE administrative arrests stand at approximately 278,000, according to internal DHS data reported by CBS News. When combined with CBP border arrests and removals, total enforcement actions exceed 520,000, based on a DHS press release.
Deportations and removals have already surpassed 527,000, according to the department’s milestone announcement, with an additional 1.6 million self-deportations driven by incentives such as the $1,000 offer and the self-removal apps. The administration is on pace to reach more than 600,000 formal removals by the end of the year.
Some media outlets claim this is merely the highest number in a decade, but that narrative is misleading because previous administrations, including Obama and Biden, counted turnarounds at the border as deportations. When actual removals from inside the United States are counted, the Trump administration has by far the highest numbers.
Out of all these arrests and deportations, and despite mainstream media amplification, there have been relatively few accusations of excessive force. There have been only four documented cases in 2025 of agents firing their weapons, and all four involved defensive gunfire in response to vehicle attacks during enforcement operations. These incidents occurred in the context of Operation Midway Blitz and similar raids, where DHS has reported a surge in suspects using cars as weapons against federal officers. No other non-vehicle-related shootings by ICE agents appear in any available sources.
In Franklin Park, Illinois, on September 12, 2025, ICE agents reported that Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez attempted to drive his vehicle into agents and dragged one of them, prompting defensive shots. In Phoenix, Arizona, on October 29, 2025, DHS stated that a man’s SUV abruptly accelerated, placing an ICE officer in the direct path of the vehicle, causing the officer to fear for his life and fire twice.
In Los Angeles, on October 21, 2025, federal prosecutors alleged that Carlitos Ricardo Parias rammed law enforcement vehicles while trying to break free during an immigration arrest, leading agents to believe he would injure them and they fired defensive rounds. In Chicago, on October 4, 2025, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent fired five shots at a woman after she allegedly rammed her car into a federal vehicle.
DHS also documented two additional vehicle-assault incidents in Illinois, one in Bensenville and one in Norridge, where suspects allegedly used cars as weapons against ICE officers, but no shots were fired in those cases.
CBP has recorded ninety-nine vehicular attacks this year, up from forty-five during the same period in 2024, a fifty-eight percent increase. ICE has experienced an even more severe spike, with twenty-eight ramming incidents since January 20 compared to only two last year, a thirteen-hundred percent increase.
Recent cases include a Salvadoran criminal illegal alien in Maryland who intentionally rammed an ICE vehicle before fleeing and injuring others, as well as a series of coordinated attacks in Chicago where Border Patrol agents faced multiple ramming attempts in a single day.
Other incidents involved suspects with gang affiliations and prior firearm and DUI convictions, illegal aliens from Venezuela attempting to flee after assaulting agents with their vehicle, and a Guatemalan illegal alien in Florida who injured an ICE officer while crashing into multiple vehicles and endangering oncoming traffic before being apprehended.
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