A "hazardous device incident" forced the full evacuation of an ICE office in Brooklyn Heights, Ohio on Sunday after a K-9 unit alerted to a suspicious package stashed in a UPS drop box in the building's publicly accessible lobby. Federal Protective Service, the FBI, and the ATF all responded to the scene.
But sure, tell us again, Democrats, how "no one is targeting ICE agents." We'll wait.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the details in a statement, saying, "On June 15, 2026, Federal Protective Service was conducting a sweep of a publicly accessible lobby at a ICE office building in Brooklyn Heights, Ohio. During the sweep, a K-9 alerted to a suspicious package in a UPS drop box. FPS immediately contacted local law enforcement and initiated a full evacuation of the facility as a precaution." DHS later added, "The situation has been resolved and all clear has been given to reoccupy the building." No injuries were reported.
This didn't happen in a vacuum. ICE itself has acknowledged the escalating danger its officers face every single day. The agency released a statement noting, "There is a pattern of vehicle attacks against our officers. Our law enforcement officers are facing a 3,300% increase in vehicle attacks against them." That's not a typo. Three thousand, three hundred percent.
And it's not just vehicles. On that same Monday, an ICE agent was struck by a suspect's vehicle in Manahawkin, New Jersey — a Peruvian illegal alien named Friedrich Castillo-Ormeno behind the wheel. So we've got car attacks on the East Coast and suspicious devices in the Midwest, all in the same news cycle. Totally normal country we're running here.
Democrats have spent years — years — telling their base that ICE is evil, that immigration enforcement is racist, that the agency should be abolished entirely. "Abolish ICE" isn't a fringe bumper sticker; it's a mainstream Democratic position. Squad members fundraised off it. Presidential candidates ran on it.
So what exactly did they think was going to happen? When you spend half a decade telling emotionally unstable people that federal law enforcement officers are modern-day Gestapo agents, somebody is going to take you literally. Somebody is going to graduate from screaming outside detention centers to leaving hazardous devices in lobby drop boxes.
The left will call this an "isolated incident." They always do. But isolated incidents have a funny way of forming a pattern when you line them up — a 3,300% increase in vehicle attacks kind of pattern.
Meanwhile, ICE agents still showed up to work on Monday. They always do. The question is whether anyone on the other side of the aisle has the decency to condemn what's happening to them — or whether they'll just keep pretending the fire has nothing to do with the gasoline they've been pouring for years.
