(Dallas) Two detainees were killed and one injured when a shooter opened fire on a federal immigration police (ICE) in Dallas, Texas, before killed the American authorities.
The assailant pulled “without discernment” from the roof of a building close to that occupied by the ICE and then committed suicide, the US Department of Internal Security (DHS) announced in a statement.
“Three prisoners were affected. Two are dead and the other is in critical condition, “said the department. The victims were inside a van located in the secure entrance to the building.
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 expression” anti-aic “,” he added, photographs in support.
The targeted building serves as a pre -retention center for migrants, before they are transferred to establishments capable of welcoming them for longer periods, 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, of lively political debates, the pro-Trump right welcoming its actions against illegal immigration, the left denouncing blows against undocumented migrants.
The vice-president, JD Vance, called on Wednesday to “cease the obsessive attacks against the police, and particularly the Ice”.
The attack in Dallas “is the third shooting in Texas against the ICE or the 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 southern Texas.
