The Trump administration is deploying federal agents under the U.S. Department of Justice to help defend immigration facilities and personnel in response to an uptick in violence.
Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memo on Monday to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Agency, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the U.S. Marshals Service, and U.S. Attorneys. Also, she pledged to prosecute offenders “ to the fullest extent of the law.”
🚨I just issued a memo to all @TheJusticeDept components making it clear: violence against federal officers will not be tolerated.
The DOJ is deploying agents to protect ICE facilities, arrest violent agitators on the spot, and bring the strongest federal charges possible.
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— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) September 29, 2025
Last week, Antifa-backed riots broke out in Oregon and Chicago. A gunman also opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas, killing one.
“Enough is enough,” Bondi wrote in the memo. “The Department of Justice will stand strong when federal law enforcement officers are attacked or threatened for doing their sworn duty on behalf of the United States government. I am directing the Bureau ofAlcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the United States Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to immediately direct all necessary officers and agents to defend ICE facilities and personnel whenever and wherever they come under attack, including in Portland and Chicago.
“Our officers will suppress all unlawful rioting and arrest every person suspected of threatening or assaulting a federal law enforcement officer or interfering with federal law enforcement operations,” she continued. “I am further directing the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the District of Oregon and Northern District ofIllinois to charge all such persons with the highest provable offense available under the law.”
The memo also states local law enforcement protecting ICE are part of a temporary ICE Protection Task Force.
The DOJ is also directing “grant funding and training and technical assistance support to the federal, state, and local law enforcement officers protecting ICE facilities and personnel.”
“The Department ofJustice will arrest and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law every person who aids, abets, or conspires to commit these crimes, whether through funding, coordination, planning, or other means,” Bondi said in the memo.
The Department of Homeland Security has also ramped up its security at ICE facilities in the wake of the Dallas shooting.
