No, ICE Agents Being Assaulted Has Not Increased by Over 1000%

Trump administration rhetoric casting the guys with all the guns as victims collapses under actual data.

Oct 19, 2025

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration repeatedly insists that assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have exploded by more than 1,000%. But a comb through the records reveals a story story of math so perverted it ought to wear a trench coat.

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Let’s walk through the fever chart [EDITOR’S NOTE: Links to them saying this?]:

June: Claimed 413% increase
Late June: Rose to 500%
July 8: Jumped to 700%
Mid-July: Became 830%
August: Reached “more than 1,000%”

Pick your number—what you won’t find is actual data. Review federal court records and you see assault charges on federal officers rose just 25% through mid-September 2025 compared to last year. The biggest slam—74%—came during ICE’s urban parade through Los Angeles, not nationwide.

Ask for proof—baseline, methodology, real numbers—and officials cycle through press releases and a few cherry-picked stories (more claims). The best they finally offered: 79 assaults from January through June, versus 10 a year earlier—a jump, yes, but not the shockwave they’re slinging. And even then, calling each incident a genuine “assault” is a stretch.

Now, the lies fly thickest from the likes of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, and White House “Border Czar” Tom Homan—each one parroting the supposed surge. None supply the data. Each uses debunked claims to push ever more aggressive, ever more chaotic enforcement.

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But it gets worse. Even the so-called “assaults” ICE parades as proof often fall apart in court:

In Washington, D.C., a man allegedly threw a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent. ICE loudly called it an assault, but a grand jury refused to indict the man.
In Denver, officials claimed an immigrant “bit” an ICE agent; federal prosecutors didn’t bother to follow through, and the defendant’s lawyer said it never happened.
Countless videos show routine tussles—fists flailing, bodies writhing—charged as assaults, but when brought before a judge, most are dismissed or treated as routine resistance.

Noem, Miller, and Homan spun these events into existential threats—right up until they enter a courtroom.

What really changed is ICE’s tidal wave of street-level operations: more raids, more confusion and more heat. Agents are arresting 1,100% more people on the street than back in 2017, most without any criminal records. Swap jail pickups for street raids and expect chaos.

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MY TAKE: When the facts don’t fit the storyline, the goalposts shift, the panic rises, and trust in law enforcement falls. The Trump administration, Noem, Miller, and Homan want the public to believe in a crime wave that isn’t there. But the real numbers—and the courtroom failures—tell us who’s really full of it.

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