Gavin Newsom ripped for decrying ICE as ‘private domestic army’ — just hours before fatal Dallas shooting
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been ripped for stoking anti-ICE flames after he decried federal agents as President Trump’s “private domestic army” — just hours before a sniper shot multiple people dead at a Texas ICE field office.
The Democrat spewed the rhetoric during an appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Tuesday, blasting the Trump admin’s “authoritarian tendencies” and saying the “ICE issue is alarming beyond words.”
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“People ask, ‘Well, is authoritarianism you being hyperbolic?’ Bulls–t we’re being hyperbolic. If you’re a black or brown community, it’s here in this country… These are not just authoritarian tendencies; these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government,” he said.
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Newsom, who just last week signed a bill banning ICE agents from masking up to conceal their identities during raids, suggested the federal agency was having a “chilling impact” on other law enforcement agencies.
“We’re losing confidence and trust in law enforcement,” he said.
“That’s happening in the United States of America: Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing, no due process, no oversight, zero accountability,” Newsom continued. “This can’t be normalized. None of this can be normalized.”
Critics quickly blasted the Dem leader’s “absurd” and “inflammatory rhetoric” — especially in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting at the Dallas ICE facility that left two migrant detainees dead and another critically injured.
Here’s what we know about the Dallas ICE facility shooting
- A gunman opened fire on an ICE van at a detention center in Dallas, Texas, in the early hours of Sept. 24.
- The shooter opened fire while detainees were being transferred and the portcullis to the facility was open, reports claim.
- Two people died and one was wounded, according to reports.
- The shooter — who was found dead on a nearby rooftop from a self-inflicted gunshot wound — has not been identified.
- There was writing on the bullets, with one reading “ANTI-ICE,” according to the FBI.
- The shooting is being investigated “as an act of targeted violence,” the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas Field Office, Joe Rothrock, said in a press conference.
“Three days ago, Gavin Newsom yelled, ‘To ICE: unmask! What are you afraid of? What are you afraid of?!’ Three people shot by a sniper at a Dallas ICE facility this morning have his answer,” one person raged on X.
Another chimed in, “Newsom LAST NIGHT on ICE: ‘These are authoritarian actions.’ JUST NOW: An ICE facility in Texas was shot up by a sniper.”
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