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25-09-2025
HOUSTON: One person has died and at least two more have been critically wounded after being shot by a suspected sniper at a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Dallas, Texas.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed the incident on Wednesday in a statement on social, saying there were “multiple injuries and fatalities” and that the suspected shooter was dead from a “self-inflicted gunshot wound”.
“The preliminary investigation determined that a suspect opened fire at a government building from an adjacent building,” Noem’s statement said.
“While we don’t know motive yet, we know that our ICE law enforcement is facing unprecedented violence against them. It must stop. Please pray for the victims and their families.”
“Two people were transported to the hospital with gunshot wounds. One victim died at the scene. The suspect is deceased,” the Dallas Police Department confirmed on social media.
Local ABC affiliate WFAA reported that the gunman was found dead on the roof of a nearby building.
Police responded to the federal facility in northwest Dallas at about 7:30am (12:30 GMT).
Local media reports said the victims were in a critical condition. ICE has not yet released an official statement.
US Vice President JD Vance said in a post that the “obsessive attack on law enforcement, particularly ICE, must stop”.
“I’m praying for everyone hurt in this attack and for their families,” he added.
ICE, a federal agency under the Department of Homeland Security, is tasked with enforcing immigration laws and conducting criminal investigations.
Its operations have been the subject of controversy and protests in recent years, particularly since the re-election of President Donald Trump and his subsequent crackdown on migrants and refugees, a cornerstone of his administration’s policies.
Human Rights Watch has previously said ICE detention officers and private contractor guards treat detainees in a “degrading and dehumanizing manner”.
Media has contacted ICE for comment.
Meanwhile, Democratic members of Congress who saw Florida’s new immigration detention centre, Alligator Alcatraz, said they witnessed dozens of people in metal enclosures, bugs and mosquitos in bunk areas, indoor temperatures above 80 degrees and people screaming for help.
Republicans who also toured the facility tell a different story, describing the space as safe, clean and well-run. The federal Homeland Security Department, which oversees immigration detention, has called characterizations of inadequate conditions at the state-run Alligator Alcatraz “false”.
Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem was asked about Democrats’ accounts during a July 13 interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press”. She said the Florida-run facility is “held to the highest levels of what the federal government requires for detention facilities”.
“Our detention centres at the federal level are held to a higher standard than most local or state centres and even federal prisons,” Noem said. “The standards are extremely high.”
White House border tsar Tom Homan also touted the nation’s immigration detention standards as being a cut above those for prisons and jails.
When a reporter asked Homan about a 75-year-old Cuban man who had been living in the US for 60 years before he died in detention in Miami in June, Homan defended federal facilities. (Int’l News Desk)
