Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has revealed that cartels, gangs, and terror groups have put bounties on several federal immigration agents, offering $10,000 to kill them and $2,000 for their capture, reports the New York Post.
Related to that issue, President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January that allowed for a process in designating certain international cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations or Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
In the article from the New York Post, Noem told Fox News that specific agents have been targeted as their pictures have been released and sent between their networks. She calls it an extremely dangerous and unprecedented situation.
According to her, the Trump administration believes that some of these aggressors are organized. Noem says they are trying to find the people who fund these riots against law enforcement in cities like Chicago, as they all appear to have the same equipment.
Noem even posted on X late September: “Comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, and the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences… The Violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop.”
Art Arthur is a resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. He says there are stiff penalties for these kinds of threats.
"Conspiracy to target a federal officer is a federal crime and one that carries felony penalties with itself. Kash Patel and the FBI needs to get to the bottom of whether there are bounties being placed on the heads of our ICE officers and who’s doing it, then go after them and give them some very stiff jail sentences,” states Arthur.
He stresses that this in the only way that these threats will be resolved. He also says it is time to dial back the rhetoric.
"Immigration enforcement is a necessary part of our federal framework. The American people get to decide who comes in, who has to leave, and how long they can stay. And they've spoken through the Immigration and Nationality Act. ICE isn't doing anything that congress hasn't told it to do and so the time has come that ice be allowed to actually do it job."
