“You should f**king kill yourself. I hope your wife dies, I hope your mom and dad die. I hope everything wrong that could go in your life happens.”
That’s a real phone call. To a real ICE agent. Working in Minnesota.
DHS released the audio Monday. They want Americans to hear what the people protecting our communities face every single day.
It gets worse.
The Full Message
The caller wished the agent would be hit by a bus and become “paralyzed.”
He hoped the agent’s wife would cheat on him.
He called the officer “fking disgusting” and a “fking murderer.”
He claimed “everyone hates” the agent as much as he does.
Then he closed with his final message: “Kill yourself.”
This wasn’t a random crank call. This is representative of thousands of threats ICE agents are receiving as they try to do their jobs.
And Democrats created this.
The Numbers
DHS released the statistics alongside the audio.
Death threats against ICE officers: up 8,000%.
Assaults against ICE officers: up 1,300%.
Vehicular attacks against ICE officers: up 3,200%.
Those aren’t typos. Eight thousand percent increase in death threats. Thirty-two hundred percent increase in people trying to run agents over with cars.
This is happening while ICE conducts operations to remove “terrorists, rapists, and gang members from American neighborhoods.”
The agents protecting your community are being terrorized for doing it.
The Rhetoric Connection
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin connected the dots.
She attributed the “unprecedented increase in violence against law enforcement” to “rhetoric from sanctuary politicians and the media.”
Tim Walz calling agents “Gestapo.”
Eric Swalwell saying ICE should be “crushed.”
Larry Krasner promising to “hunt down” agents like Nazi war criminals.
Obama urging more protests.
Hollywood celebrities crying about “the worst of humanity.”
When political leaders and cultural figures spend months dehumanizing law enforcement, some percentage of their followers take it literally.
The caller in that audio didn’t develop his hatred in a vacuum. He was taught to hate. By politicians. By media. By celebrities. By an entire apparatus dedicated to portraying ICE agents as monsters.
The Human Cost
DHS reminded Americans who these agents actually are.
“The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer.”
They’re not abstractions. They’re not political symbols. They’re people with families who go home at night — if they make it home.
An agent had his finger bitten off by a Minneapolis rioter.
Agents are surrounded by mobs while trying to arrest violent criminals.
Agents receive calls telling them to kill themselves, hoping their families die.
This is what “resistance” looks like in practice. Not principled opposition. Not peaceful protest. Terroristic threats against public servants and their loved ones.
The Promise
DHS didn’t just release the audio. They made a commitment.
“We will hunt these sickos down and put them behind bars.”
Good.
Threatening federal officers is a federal crime. Making death threats against law enforcement and their families should result in prosecution, conviction, and imprisonment.
Every person who picks up a phone to tell an agent to kill himself should face consequences. Every caller who threatens an officer’s wife or parents should meet federal investigators.
The era of consequence-free harassment needs to end.
The Media Silence
Where is the mainstream coverage of this audio?
When a congressman receives a threatening letter, it’s national news. When a liberal activist faces online harassment, it dominates the news cycle.
ICE agents receiving death threats at an 8,000% increased rate? Crickets.
The same media that amplifies every anti-ICE narrative suppresses anything that humanizes the agents. They don’t want Americans to hear that audio. They don’t want viewers to know about the threats, the assaults, the vehicular attacks.
Because sympathy for ICE agents undermines the narrative. And the narrative must be protected.
The Dehumanization Strategy
This is deliberate.
You can’t get people to call federal agents and tell them to kill themselves unless you first convince them those agents aren’t really human. That they’re Nazis. That they’re murderers. That they’re “the worst of humanity.”
That’s what Tim Walz does when he invokes the Gestapo.
That’s what Swalwell does when he says the agency should be “crushed.”
That’s what celebrities do when they cry about fascism at film festivals.
They’re providing the moral framework for violence. They’re telling their followers that ICE agents are so evil, so inhuman, that anything done to them is justified.
Then they act shocked when someone takes them seriously.
The Escalation Pattern
First it was protests. Then obstruction. Then surrounding vehicles. Then assaults. Then vehicular attacks. Then biting off fingers. Then shootings.
And through it all: death threats. Thousands of them. Telling agents to kill themselves. Wishing death on their families.
Where does this end?
It ends with more agents killed. It ends with more confrontations turning fatal. It ends with the complete breakdown of the ability to enforce immigration law.
That’s the goal. Make enforcement so dangerous, so personally costly, that agents quit or refuse to act.
The death threats aren’t random expressions of anger. They’re a strategy.
The Response Required
DHS promised to hunt down the people making these threats.
That needs to happen. Visibly. Publicly. With perp walks and press conferences.
Every caller who threatens an agent needs to understand that federal investigators will find them, arrest them, and prosecute them.
Every politician who incites this hatred needs to be called out by name and held responsible for the climate they’ve created.
Every media outlet that amplifies anti-ICE rhetoric while suppressing stories about threats against agents needs to be exposed.
The men and women of ICE deserve to do their jobs without fearing for their lives and their families. The American people deserve law enforcement that can function without being terrorized.
The Bottom Line
“Kill yourself. I hope your wife dies.”
That’s what an ICE agent in Minnesota heard on his phone.
Death threats up 8,000%. Assaults up 1,300%. Vehicular attacks up 3,200%.
This is the environment Democrats created with their rhetoric, their Nazi comparisons, their calls to “crush” the agency.
The agents receiving these calls are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They’re trying to remove violent criminals from American communities.
And they’re being terrorized for it.
DHS released the audio because Americans need to hear it. They need to know what’s being done to the people protecting them.
The violence and dehumanization must end.
And the people responsible — from the callers to the politicians who incite them — must face consequences.