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Fox News
15-07-2025
- Fox News
Active shooter killed in attempt to ambush Border Patrol agents in Texas
An active shooter armed with tactical gear and a rifle opened fire upon Border Patrol agents as they arrived at a Border Patrol annex facility in McAllen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley on Monday, law enforcement sources say. Agents and local police returned fire and killed the gunman. No federal agents were hit, but one McAllen police officer was struck. Law enforcement sources say the officer is in stable condition. "This morning an individual opened fired at the entrance of the United States Border Patrol sector annex in McAllen, Texas. Both Border Patrol agents and local police helped neutralize the shooter," the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement to Fox News. "This is an ongoing investigation led by the FBI. More information will be shared as it becomes available." Law enforcement believes the attack was a purposeful ambush targeting Border Patrol officials. Local police say they will hold a news conference on the attack later Monday. The incident comes just days after another Texas police officer was shot Friday night near U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Prairieland Detention Facility, authorities said. "We are closely monitoring the attacks on DHS detention facilities in Prairieland, TX, and Portland, OR, and are coordinating with the [US Attorney offices] and our law enforcement partners," said Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on X. "The Department [of Justice] has zero tolerance for assaults on federal officers or property and will bring the full weight of the law against those responsible," he added. Several suspects were arrested after an officer with the Alvarado Police Department was shot at around 11 p.m. while responding to reports of a suspicious person, FOX Dallas reported. When the officer tried making contact with the person, shots were fired and the officer was struck in the neck. The officer was flown to a Fort Worth hospital for treatment and was later released. Several armed suspects fled but were arrested with the help of the Johnson County Sheriff's Office and other authorities, the news station reported.
Yahoo
13-07-2025
- Yahoo
Man killed after opening fire at Border Patrol facility in Texas
A man was killed Monday after he opened fire at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, police officials said. McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez told reporters that federal agents responded to the shooting by returning fire at Ryan Louis Mosqueda, 27, who died. He had an assault rifle and was carrying a utility vest, Rodriguez said. Officials said they found another rifle and more ammunition. One officer was injured in the shooting, Rodriguez said, noting it was not yet clear whether a bullet or shrapnel caused the injury. Rodriguez said Mosqueda's motive is unknown. The shooting took place across the street from McAllen International Airport, which temporarily delayed all flights and closed the airport 'due to off-airport safety concerns.' The airport reopened later Monday morning. 'We appreciate the community's patience as we prioritized safety during the closure,' McAllen City Manager Isaac Tawil said in a statement. 'Thanks to the quick coordination of emergency personnel and airport staff, we're pleased to welcome travelers back with full service.' The shooting at the Border Patrol facility along the border comes a couple of days after a police officer after was shot outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Alvarado, Texas. Several armed individuals were taken into custody following that incident. The Associated Press contributed. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Fox News
12-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
BROADCAST BIAS: Networks downplay violent attacks on ICE to push immigration agenda
On Monday, July 7, Axios published a shocking article titled "Democrats told to 'get shot' for the anti-Trump resistance." Anonymous House Democrats claimed their base voters are saying there "needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public." Well, no one should have expected ABC, CBS and NBC to pick up this report and highlight it. They can hear in this wild chatter a spirit of January 6, that nonviolent politics as usual doesn't match the moment. The networks were also averse to spending much time on actual political violence this week, although the intended victims were law-enforcement officials, not elected Democrats. On Monday morning, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin relayed an active shooter with a rifle and tactical gear ambushed Border Patrol agents as they arrived at a Border Patrol annex facility in McAllen, Texas. Local police and federal agents returned fire, killing the assailant. That received only a smattering of attention. That drew more attention than a leftist attack on an ICE facility on the Fourth of July, which should have added outrage to the news soup. A Texas police officer was shot in the neck allegedly by armed anti-ICE wingnuts near an ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, about a half-south of Dallas. Authorities said Monday it was a "planned ambush" on the building, resulting in 11 people being charged. They said 10 to 12 people in black military-style clothing began shooting fireworks at the facility. One or two others broke off from the group and began to damage vehicles and spray graffiti with words like "ICE pig," "traitor" and profanities. We found just one brief on the "CBS Evening News" on July 8. "Ten people are charged with attempted murder after allegedly staging an ambush at an immigration detention center in Alvarado, Texas. Investigators say some of the suspects lured officers outside by shooting fireworks at the building and painting graffiti," announced anchor Maurice DeBois. "An officer was shot and is out of the hospital. Authorities are investigating whether the July 4th attack is linked to a shooting yesterday at a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas." That's 70 words, lasting 25 seconds. The "PBS News Hour" report was pretty much the same length. PBS anchor Amna Nawaz noted: "The acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas said that last week's events were — quote — 'an ambush of federal and local law enforcement officers.'" Then she added, "The charges come as immigration agents just received a major infusion of funding to carry out President Trump's deportation agenda." Their brief was the throat-clearing introduction to lead into White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez. The segment was given the scary online headline "GOP gives ICE massive budget increase to expand Trump's deportation effort." PBS never returned to the violent attacks on ICE enforcers. Nawaz did complain that ICE is too aggressive with innocent non-violent illegal aliens: "President Trump said he was focusing on violent criminals, on public safety threats. We have seen ICE has gone far beyond that already, so who is and will be targeted for arrest moving forward?" On Thursday night, ABC's "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir announced in his typically clipped style: "A major immigration raid unfolding. Masked federal agents raiding two California farms north of Los Angeles at this hour. Clashing with protesters who quickly gathered. Men lined up against a wall under heavy guard." Reporter Aaron Katersky at least mentioned some people desire violence against ICE: "This kind of immigration enforcement is not only drawing crowds like we're seeing tonight, David. Online, there are calls for violence with the goal of trying to stop these raids." On Friday morning, CBS and NBC followed suit with the "chaos" and "angry protesters" trying to interrupt enforcement actions. NBC anchor Craig Melvin noted: "The FBI now offering a reward in the search for someone who appeared to fire a pistol at federal agents during a raid on a farm in southern California." The headline was softer: "ICE Agents Clash with Protesters," not "Protester Shoots at ICE Agents." CBS at least put the words "Violent Immigration Protests in California," but CBS reporter Carter Evans peppered his story with outraged protesters. "I'm scared even though I'm a citizen and everything," one said. "I'm scared. Really scared." Another ICE protester argued "There's got to be a better way than the way that they're acting right now." An unidentified female screamed, "What about the children that are going to be taken from their families?" These networks clearly want to shower ICE with negative coverage. The illegal aliens are the sympathetic victims. Nowhere in these stories is the reality that illegal immigration has stopped to a trickle. Polls across the media landscape have showed the public supports deporting all illegal immigrants. The liberal networks are promoting the minority viewpoint again.
Fox News
10-07-2025
- Fox News
Texas Border Patrol shooter details remain scant as violence against ICE, CBP agents surges
Details about the shooter who opened fire on Border Patrol agents at an annex in McAllen, Texas, Monday remain scant days later as assaults against federal immigration officials are on the rise. Authorities identified Ryan Louis Mosqueda, 27, as the suspect Monday, confirming Mosqueda was killed at the scene. "Both Border Patrol agents and local police helped neutralize the shooter," a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said Monday. "Two officers and a Border Patrol employee were injured, including one shot in the knee. All three have gone to the hospital. This is an ongoing investigation led by the FBI." But the motive of the shooter still remains unknown, and McAllen, Texas, Police Chief Victor Rodriguez did not have any additional information to share with reporters during a news conference Monday about why Mosqueda opened fire on the agents. The McAllen, Texas, Police Department did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital request for more details. Rodriguez said the gunman fired off "many dozens" of rounds at Customs and Border Protection's McAllen, Texas, station. Mosqueda is affiliated with a Michigan address, and his car had Michigan license plates. However, Rodriguez said Mosqueda was reported missing from an address in Weslaco, Texas, less than 20 miles away, and that "an hour and a few minutes later he was at this particular location, opening fire on a federal building." Mosqueda's brother, Joe, told Detroit's WDIV Local he'd never witnessed his brother speak about immigration issues or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) but said he suspected he was dealing with undiagnosed mental health challenges. "Out of the blue," Joe Mosqueda told the outlet. "I don't know if he was intentionally targeting, I don't know. I believe it was mental health issues." Joe Mosqueda or other family members could not be immediately reached for comment by email or phone calls by Fox News Digital. The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. The Department of Homeland Security reported earlier in July that assaults against ICE officers and other federal immigration agents have risen nearly 700% compared to 2024. While the agency reported 10 assault incidents between Jan. 1, 2024, and June 30, 2024, that number rose to 79 reported assaults in the same time frame in 2025. Other recent episodes of violence against law enforcement include another shooting near ICE's Prairieland Detention Facility Friday, where a Texas police officer was shot in the neck. The Justice Department announced Tuesday that 10 individuals face charges in the shooting. The White House has urged Democrats to scale back language toward federal immigration officials after the shooting and other similar instances of violence. "We certainly call on Democrats to tone down their rhetoric against ICE and Border Patrol agents, who, again, are everyday men and women," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Monday. "These are honorable Americans who are just simply trying to do their job to enforce the law. They go home to their families every night, just like we all do, and they deserve respect and dignity for trying to enforce our nation's immigration laws and to remove public safety threats from our communities." Lawmakers, including Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., have issued harsh statements about ICE in recent weeks. Jayapal accused ICE of acting "like a terrorist force" in June and defended her comments in a July 2 interview with CNN after the White House demanded an apology from the lawmaker. Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., who oversees the House Homeland Security committee's subcommittee on border security and enforcement, said in a statement Wednesday to Fox News Digital that "radical anti-law enforcement rhetoric" has prompted the uptick in crime against federal immigration officials. "This dangerous rhetoric from the far left jeopardizes the safety of our men and women in green. Violence against law enforcement will not be tolerated," Green said. "The Committee on Homeland Security is in close contact with DHS concerning this attack on our law enforcement, and we will support the FBI's investigation into the individual responsible and their motives."
Fox News
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Border Patrol union chief blasts anti-masking proposal: 'Tone deaf politics'
National Border Patrol Council President Paul Perez slammed the Democratic-backed proposed "VISIBLE Act" in Congress that would require federal immigration authorities to present clear identification and prevent them from wearing face coverings in public-facing circumstances. "Tone-deaf politics, especially after law enforcement agents have been specifically targeted," Perez told Fox News Digital in an interview. "What they'd like to see is our agents get killed because there is absolutely no reason for you to require a policy that forces our agents to identify themselves in public because everybody's got a camera so that they can be doxxed and attacked," he said, adding it poses a risk to officers' families as well. "It's insane to create a policy. You're pandering to people that cannot even vote for you. You know, you're protecting illegal immigrants that have no right to be in this country, and you're sacrificing honorable law enforcement officers," he continued, saying that agents are being tasked to enforce laws that Congress enacted to begin with. "Our agents are never gonna be afraid. They know the job that they signed up for. But what they don't appreciate, what we don't want is targeting," he said. ICE agents have seen a 700% increase in assaults from the same time in 2024, and recent protests and riots have drawn serious concerns about the safety of law enforcement as they ramp up deportation and other immigration operations. A Border Patrol annex facility in McAllen, Texas, faced an ambush on Monday that resulted in a local police officer being injured along with two Border Patrol personnel. Meanwhile, an anti-ICE attack at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, last Friday resulted in a local police officer being shot in the neck, and 10 individuals are now facing attempted murder charges. Democrats have said that the VISIBLE Act, which stands for "Visible Identification Standards for Immigration-Based Law Enforcement," is a necessary degree of accountability for agents amid a major shift in immigration policy under the Trump administration. The bill is co-sponsored by 13 other Democratic senators: Tammy Duckworth, Adam Schiff, Tina Smith, Peter Welch, Andy Kim, Patty Murray, Ron Wyden, Elissa Slotkin, Amy Klobuchar, Chris Van Hollen, Mazie Hirono, Gary Peters, and Richard Blumenthal. "When federal immigration agents show up and pull someone off the street in plainclothes with their face obscured and no visible identification, it only escalates tensions and spreads fear while shielding federal agents from basic accountability," Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., said in a statement in support of the bill, which he is leading with New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker. "Immigration agents should be required to display their agency and name or badge number – just like police and other local law enforcement agencies. The VISIBLE Act's commonsense requirements will restore transparency and ensure impersonators can't exploit the panic and confusion caused by unidentifiable federal immigration enforcement agents," the Democrat continued. At the state level, the debate over whether agents should mask comes as discussions about how lower-level authorities should coordinate with the federal government, and to what extent. "Well, I'll leave that to Congress to decide," Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs told Fox News Digital at a press conference in Phoenix on Thursday when asked her stance on the federal bill. "I can tell you I've had conversations, and I understand people's concerns about agents being masked. But I've had conversations with leadership here at [Arizona Department of Public Safety] and there certainly are circumstances where for officer safety, they might have officers masked in a situation. And so I don't think there's a cut and dry 'yes or no,' 'this should happen or not.' I trust our state leadership to make the right decisions in those circumstances," Hobbs added. Other states, like Massachusetts and California, have had lawmakers pitch similar ideas but would likely face constitutional barriers, as it would regulate federal authorities.
