Recently, federal immigration police officers in Dallas, Texas, were shot at by a hate-filled gunman. He appeared to be “inspired” by vicious left-wing rhetoric against the brave men and women who enforce our immigration laws. We are now in the second major tidal wave of anti-law enforcement, hatred, and violence in the last five years.
The first occurred, ironically, in what became known as the “Summer of Love” in 2020. After George Floyd died during an altercation with police officers in Minneapolis, an upsurge in anti-police sentiment swept the nation.
Many well-meaning people concerned about social justice and police reform marched peacefully in major cities. But embedded in those large crowds in city after city were radicals and anarchists who took over the streets at nightfall. They engaged in widespread looting, arson, and assault, destroying businesses where many people worked.
The 2020 riots resulted in 200 US cities imposing curfews to restore order. Damage from arson and looting soared into the billions of dollars. More than 14,000 people were arrested, and 19 individuals were killed during the violent unrest. A Senate report found that more than 900 law enforcement officers were injured.
Concurrently, there was a major onslaught from the political Left attacking the police. The “defund-the-police” movement suddenly emerged from the fringes of the far Left. It was embraced by many self-described “progressive” politicians.
As a result, big cities controlled by the Left all across the country slashed their police budgets. Police officers were regularly accused of “systemic racism.” Not surprisingly, many officers took early retirement or moved to law-enforcement-friendly states. Police morale and recruitment plummeted. Virtually every major city in the country is still suffering from a lack of officers. The anti-police agitation actually made urban cities and minority communities less safe.
Today, we are experiencing a second wave of anti-police activism and violence. This time the target is ICE—Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE agents serve as federal immigration police. The Border Patrol does its best to stop illegal aliens at the border. ICE tracks down, detains, and deports illegal immigrants who manage to avoid the Border Patrol, as well as individuals who overstay their visas.
The previous administration, wholly committed to open borders, allowed millions of illegal aliens into our country. Among the masses were gang members, drug dealers, human traffickers, sexual predators, and murderers.
Border security and illegal immigration were major issues in the 2024 presidential election, and they helped to return Donald Trump to the White House. Since President Trump’s inauguration, assaults on immigration police have increased by 1,000 percent. They have been assaulted, ambushed, and shot. Many immigration police officers are being “doxed” online. Their addresses and personal information are made public, resulting in anti-ICE mobs showing up at their homes and threatening their families.
JDFI strongly urges elected officials to stop using rhetoric labeling federal police “the Gestapo” and “Nazis.”
Anti-Christian Violence Growing, Too
A new report from a leading think tank indicates that 2025 is “on pace to be the Left’s most violent year in more than three decades.”1 While much of that left-wing violence is aimed at immigration police, there is another disturbing source—the radical transgender movement driven by LGBTQ ideology. That is leading to violence against individual Christians, churches, and Christian schools. Not long ago, a transgender shooter murdered Christian children attending Mass at a Catholic church in Minneapolis.
School shootings in America are every parent’s nightmare. Most school shootings involve drugs or gang-related activity on school property. That is bad enough. But there is another category of school violence involving youthful shooters who are driven by ideology. A recent analysis found that half of those shootings were either committed by a transgender shooter or a shooter inspired by transgender ideology.2
The most obvious example is the assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus. The accused assassin was not transgender himself, but his lover was deep into transgender ideology. The assassin said he shot Charlie Kirk because of Kirk’s position on LGBTQ issues.
Kirk’s views were defined by the Left as “hate.” He was killed while answering a question about transgender violence. It’s not a coincidence that the more Charlie Kirk talked boldly about his faith in Jesus Christ, the more hatred came his way, especially from the transgender juggernaut.
Several left-wing extremist groups reportedly have a disproportionate number of transgender members, including Trantifa, Armed Queers, the Socialist Rifle Association, and the John Brown Gun Club.
Within the transgender subculture, there is a lot of extremely violent rhetoric on the dark web. Much of it is directed at anyone with a Christian perspective. Many pastors and Christian politicians suggest that transgender people need mental health care. Laws have been passed to protect children from trans ideology and to prohibit minor children from receiving radical medical procedures that cannot be reversed. These views are denounced as “hate” and claims there is a “genocide” of transgender people. Such rabid rhetoric is driving unstable people to commit acts of violence.
Riley Gaines has led the battle to protect women’s sports from men. God laid on her heart the urgent need to speak out against the humiliation she had experienced after losing competitions to a man who claimed to be a woman, and worse, being forced to share locker rooms with him. She has courageously spoken out and become a leading advocate for the rights of girls and young women. But these have come at a cost. Gaines is routinely threatened when she speaks on college campuses. She was even held hostage during one event at San Francisco State University. Transgender activists often lead these violent protests.
While the planned assassination of Justice Brett Kavanuagh initially received significant media attention, the story disappeared as soon as it was revealed that the wannabe assassin was transgender. In many cases, the “mainstream media” is deliberately refusing to connect the dots.
With so much hate being aimed at men and women of faith who believe that God created us male and female and ordained marriage as the union of one man and one woman, churches and synagogues must do everything they can to protect their congregations and secure their buildings.
In addition, the Church must stand alongside legitimate and uncorrupt law enforcement.
Police are the watchmen on the wall. They are the ones in any civil society, certainly a society with a constitution that guarantees rights, who are the domestic equivalent of the military. They are there to keep us safe from criminals and thugs who would harm us. In Romans 13, the Bible is clear that the government, including the police, exists to protect the innocent. First Peter 2 speaks of God using the instruments of government (the police) to punish evil, and the fifth chapter of Matthew tells us, “Blessed are the peacemakers.”
JDFI stands with the men and women of law enforcement—the “thin blue line” that preserves order and protects the weak.
- Weibel, Elizabeth. “Fetterman Shares Study of ‘Left-Wing Terrorism’ Reaching 30-Year High.” Breitbart, September 29, 2025. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/28/john-fetterman-shares-study-of-left-wing-terrorism-reaching-30-year-high-slams-dems-extreme-rhetoric/.
- Roger Severino (@RogerSeverino), “Coalition of 22 Attorneys General,” X, September 24, 2025, 10:51 a.m., https://x.com/RogerSeverino_/status/1838607152912703614.
