1 of 3 | Attorney General Pam Bondi, center, speaks on Monday in the Oval Office before President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum designating Antifa as a terrorist organization. Also present for the signing were Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, right, FBI Director Kash Patel and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, among others. Photo by Samuel Corum/UPI | License Photo
Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered Department of Justice agents to guard U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention sites and directed a counterintelligence task force to investigate previous attacks against federal authorities.
The DOJ includes the FBI, Drug and Enforcement Agency, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the U.S. Marshals Service but Bondi did not specify which federal law enforcement agents will be deployed.
Bondi's announcement on Friday came two days after a gunman shot at an ICE detention site in Dallas, killing one detainee and wounding two others. The shooter, who allegedly wrote "ANTI-ICE" on an unused round found at the scene, died of a self-inflicted gunshot as law enforcement approached him.
"At my direction, I am deploying DOJ agents to ICE facilities -- and wherever ICE comes under siege -- to safeguard federal agents, protect federal property, and immediately arrest all individuals engaged in any federal crime," Bondi wrote on X.
