Wave of car attacks on ICE agents follows incendiary rhetoric from target-city leaders

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A surge in car-rammings and other assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during targeted operations in California, Illinois and North Carolina has coincided with sharp criticism from local and state leaders against federal officers. Earlier this week, the Department of Homeland Security reported a 1,300% increase in vehicular attacks on ICE since President Donald Trump took office, and a 58% spike against CBP officers in that same time period. There were only two vehicular rammings of ICE agents – in particular – during former President Joe Biden ’s final year in office. His administration also did not conduct fervent, targeted immigration raids at the same scale or frequency, according to reports. DEMS URGED TO ‘STOP SIDING WITH ILLEGAL ALIENS’ AFTER ACTIVIST RAMS AGENTS IN SANCTUARY CITY In comments to Fox News Digital on Friday, Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said: "Since January 20, there have been 99 vehicle attacks against DHS law enforcement, a 1,000% increase in assaults against them, and an 8,000% increase in death threats to ICE officers. Make no mistake: The uptick in these kinds of attacks is being fueled by the constant demonization of ICE and CBP officers by Democrat politicians. They need to knock it off before they get one of our officers killed." Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, whose city was targeted second after Los Angeles, has repeatedly labeled Trump a racist and characterized ICE agents as terrorists. As recently as this week, Johnson told a podcast – in a report aired by Sky News – that "attacks" on illegal immigrants and targets of the Trump administration have the same characteristics as the priorities of antebellum freedmen. "We know that the intentional attacks that are coming from the Trump administration and the extreme right in this country has very much been what I call an attempt to relitigate the Civil War," Johnson said. "They have not accepted the results that the North actually won." FROM WORDS TO…