An immigration expert is sounding the alarm about the rise in violence against Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. 

There has been an astonishing 830% increase in assaults against ICE officers, according to congressional testimony from Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project. He said that number is likely a conservative estimate.

“It’s probably five to 10 times that because they’re not arresting people at the rates they should be. You know, all the rock-throwers, the spitters, everything else, it’s more likely than not that they just don’t get arrested,” Howell told The Daily Signal.

The Oversight Project began in 2022 as an arm of The Heritage Foundation and has since

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