Lefty PAC That Poured Millions Into Electing ‘Squad’ Members Tries Pinning Dallas Attack On ICE

A PAC that has steered millions of dollars toward electing far-left Democrats is blaming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for a deadly shooting at its Dallas, Texas, facility, saying the loss of life occurred “in ICE custody.”

The anti-ICE sniper who fired indiscriminately at agents and hit multiple detainees on Wednesday is another example of how ICE is “killing immigrants,” the Justice Democrats PAC told supporters in a Thursdayemail one day after the attack. The PAC has spent millions of dollars in recent years on helping to elect Democrats such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, the first of a far-left faction in Congress known informally as “The Squad.”

Joshua Jahn, 29, fired indiscriminately from a nearby building at the Dallas facility, killing at least one detainee and wounding two others before fatally shooting himself, authorities said. The shooter left “anti-ICE” written on a bullet casing and writings that said he wanted to “give ICE agents real terror,” investigators found. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has called the shooting “the very definition of terrorism.”

Justice Democrats did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

“Since Donald Trump took back the White House and launched his cruel mass-deportation agenda, at least 17 people have died in ICE custody,” the PAC wrote Thursday. Its list included “two detainees who were cruelly shot and killed by a gunman at a Dallas ICE facility yesterday.” Officials initially said two detainees were killed, then clarified that one died and two were in critical condition.

“How sick for politicians to be fundraising over a horrific and politically motivated shooting against our brave ICE law enforcement,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told the DCNF. “These politicians are fanning the flames of division with their lies, demonizing, and dehumanization.”

The email quoted Democratic Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois saying, “Every death at the hands of ICE, every family separated by ICE, every orphan created by ICE is Kristi Noem’s responsibility. She must come to the committee and account for ICE’s unlawfulness.”

Justice Democrats has given Ramirez’ principal campaign committee $5,000 in the current election cycle, campaign finance records show. The PAC, founded in 2017, also gave Ocasio-Cortez $5,000 in 2018 out of more than $2.5 million it spent that cycle. Ocasio-Cortez has credited the PAC with recruiting her to run and jumpstarting her campaign operations.

Ocasio-Cortez and Ramirez’ campaigns did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment. They are both up for reelection in 2026.

Justice Democrats currently has a fundraising page on ActBlue with a call to “abolish ICE.”

“Not only are people dying in detention centers and at the hands of ICE agents, but hundreds have gone missing,” the PAC said Thursday. “New reporting indicates that two-thirds of the 1,800 people held at the so-called Alligator Alcatraz center in Florida are missing in ICE’s online database and are unable to be located by their loved ones. They have truly been disappeared.”

The Department of Homeland Security has called the disappearing migrants claim a hoax, stating that no one has died at the detention facility.

“We thought this shooting would serve as a wake-up call to the far-left turn down their rhetoric — but instead they are doubling down,” McLaughlin said about Democrats. “Accusing ICE of ‘disappearing’ people and blaming them for deaths in custody has consequences.”

Wednesday’s terrorist attack followed two other shootings in Texas in July targeting a Border Patrol facility in McAllen and an ICE detention center in Alvaredo. Trump’s officials have blamed rising violence against immigration officials on rhetoric from Democrats and left-wing commentators, including comparing the agency to the Gestapo.

“Every death in ICE custody is tragic and thoroughly investigated,” McLaughlin told the DCNF. “The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop.”

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