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▪ Vance says shooter 'politically motivated'

▪ White House prepares for shutdown

▪ Trump demands 'sabotage' investigation

▪ Zelensky presses for UN to take action

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A shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas on Wednesday that killed one person and injured two others has renewed fears over violence in the country.

The shooting, which came two weeks after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a college campus in Utah, has added to fears of politically motivated attacks even as key details have yet to emerge.

Authorities have not yet revealed a particular motive behind the attack, but Trump administration officials broadly described the shooting as political in nature.

“There’s some evidence that we have that’s not yet public, but we know this person was politically motivated,” Vice President Vance said at a speech in North Carolina, without detailing evidence. “They were politically motivated to go after law enforcement. They were politically motivated to go after people who are enforcing our border."

All three victims who were shot were detainees at the facility, and no ICE agents were injured in the shooting, authorities said. The two injured individuals were taken to the hospital in critical condition.

FBI Director Kash Patel said officials found an unused bullet casing with the message “ANTI-ICE” written on it. The suspect, identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the shooter “fired indiscriminately at the ICE building” and at a van in a sally port where victims were shot.

DHS said it will "immediately" increase security at ICE facilities across the country in light of the shooting. Department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said the shooting should serve as a "wake-up call to the far-left" about the consequences of its rhetoric about ICE.

Politicians and commentators were quick to assign blame for the shooting, even as few details were known earlier in the day. The Hill’s Emily Brooks reports the shooting is the latest incident to inflame debate over whether left-wing or right-wing ideology is more to blame for political violence.

President Trump brushed off the idea of right-wing violence as a major issue and pointed the finger at the “radical left” in the aftermath of Kirk’s assassination earlier this month, and did the same after the ICE shooting.

“This violence is the result of the Radical Left Democrats constantly demonizing Law Enforcement, calling for ICE to be demolished, and comparing ICE Officers to ‘Nazis,’” he said in a post on Truth Social. “The continuing violence from Radical Left Terrorists, in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, must be stopped.”

Still, studies have shown right-wing political violence is more widespread than that from the left wing. After Kirk’s shooting, the Justice Department quietly removed a study from its website that showed far-right extremists were responsible for the bulk of ideologically motivated killings.

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin said in a statement that quelling political violence will require everyone to work together.

The ICE incident will likely add to the battle over immigration policies.

Vance got into a heated back-and-forth with Jon Favreau, a former Obama White House staffer and co-host of the “Pod Save America” podcast, over details of Wednesday's shooting.

“The obsessive attack on law enforcement, particularly ICE, must stop,” Vance posted on the social platform X.

After Favreau argued Vance isn’t a “reliable source of information,” pointing to past posts that had received community fact-checks, the vice president hit back.

“The gunman had anti-ICE messaging carved on the bullets he used. What, precisely, did I get wrong, dips---?” he wrote.

▪ KERA News: Dallas ICE shooting is latest in string of immigration-related violence.

The shooting comes amid broader tensions over the administration's push to crack down on left-leaning groups and Trump’s recent declaration of the antifa movement as a domestic terrorist organization.

Liberal-leaning organizations and individuals have expressed concern that Trump could use the terrorist designation as a way to go after a wide range of liberal groups.

How the administration plans to enforce the order and go after those considered to be members of antifa is unclear.

▪ PBS: Why Trump wants to declare antifa a terrorist organization.

▪ Fox News: “Senate lawmakers clash over Trump administration’s approach to free speech, censorship.”

Fears of rising political violence have rippled into pop culture as well.

In a possible sign of trying to avoid adding to the tensions, Apple TV announced this week it would postpone the release of the new series “The Savant,” in which Jessica Chastain plays an undercover investigator who infiltrates online hate groups to take down violent extremists.

Chastain said she disagrees with the decision and argued that the show is more relevant than ever.

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