(Dallas) A man opened fire on Wednesday on a retention center for the Federal Immigration Police (ICE) in Dallas, Texas, killing two people and injuring another before killing themselves, the American authorities announced.
The three people affected are prisoners, according to information from the American press.
The local FBI manager Joe Rothrock refused to confirm these statements, but stressed that no member of the police had been injured.
Photo Jamie Stengle, Associated Press
Police block the I-35E motorway near a office of American immigration and customs services after a shooting in Dallas, September 24, 2025.
If an investigation is underway to determine the killer’s intentions, “a first review of evidence shows an ideological mobile,” said FBI boss Kash Patel.
“On one of the unproportionate cartridges that have been found is written the“ anti-Ice ”sentence,” he added, photographs in support.
This federal immigration police, a centerpiece of Donald Trump’s massive eviction policy, is strongly criticized on the left for his muscular interventions.
“Embussed shooter”
According to the first elements of the investigation, “a suspect opened fire on a public building from another building. Two people injured by ball were transported to hospital. A victim died on the spot, “Dallas police ‘police attack.
The shooter then killed himself with a firearm, according to the authorities.
“Preliminary information indicates that it is an ambushed shooter,” assured the interim director of the immigration police, Todd Lyons, on CNN.
The man was installed on a roof with a rifle, police sources indicated to the local Fox4 chain, adding that he killed himself at the arrival of police officers.
The referral installation is a short -term retention center, according to American media.
A precedent
Federal Immigration Police are at the center of the massive eviction policy set up by the government of Donald Trump.
It has been the subject, for months, to lively political debates, the pro-Trump right welcoming its actions against illegal immigration, the left denouncing coups against undocumented migrants.
Vice-president JD Vance called on Wednesday that “the obsessive attacks on Wednesday against the police, and particularly ICE”.
The attack in Dallas “is the third shooting in Texas against ICE or CBP”, the border police, denounced the republican senator Ted Cruz at a press conference by the authorities.
On July 4, a police officer was injured in the neck during an attack on another retention center for migrants from the immigration police near Dallas.
According to federal authorities, several attackers were involved, including one who pulled 20 to 30 bullets on unarmed prison agents, and several rifles, bulletproof vests and talkies-talkies were found on the spot.
Leaflets to slogans such as “fighting terror that Ice reign by the class struggle” have also been found. Ten people were charged in this case.
A man was also shot in early July after opening fire on a border police building in South Texas.
