WASHINGTON—By early summer this year, a trend became clear across America. Some opponents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other immigration law enforcement were moving from words to violence.
The Sept. 24 sniper attack on an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas, marked a grim milestone: It was the third such shooting this year in the Lone Star state. In separate incidents in July, attackers targeted a Border Patrol station in McAllen and the Prairieland ICE detention facility in Alvarado.
As protests pop up across the nation, the Department of Homeland Security says the rate of assaults against ICE officers has grown by more than 1,000 percent….