FBI Arrests Man Who Threatened to Kill ICE Officer, Family Members

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a man who threatened to kill an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, his wife, and children, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a May 29 post on X.

Blanche gave an interview to Fox News on May 29, vowing to take the accused into custody. The accused made the threats during protests at the ICE’s Delaney Hall detention facility in New Jersey.

“I’ll kill your whole family. Your whole [expletive] family is dead. Your children, your wife, all dead. I have your face [expletive]. You’re dead. Dead,” the accused said. Blanche said that such threats amount to a federal crime.

“And not only threatening the ICE officer, but think about how disgusting this individual is, threatening his family and his children with death. What is this man doing? He’s just doing his job standing there,” Blanche said.

“And I promise you, we will find him. And when we find him, we will arrest him because it is a crime not only to threaten law enforcement, but not surprisingly, to threaten their family as well.”

Blanche said that the immigration officers carrying out their duties in New Jersey have received “virtually no support” from local law enforcement. The way to stop aggressive protests against ICE is by making arrests “where appropriate,” he said.

“When you have no support from local law enforcement, then the protesters and the rioters, which is what they are, the rioters, they’re able to back up and kind of gather up and then attack again,” Blanche said.

And so, it makes it much more difficult to protect immigration facilities, he said.

New Jersey’s Delaney Hall has seen continued protests for many days, with immigration activists and Democratic lawmakers asking for greater transparency on the conditions inside the facility.

On May 25, protestors clashed with ICE agents outside the site, alleging mistreatment of detained individuals, and calling for the facility to be shut down.

This week, Reps. Daniel Goldman (D-N.Y.) and Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) conducted an overnight visit to the facility.

In a May 27 post on X, Nadler said the conditions in the detention center were “deeply disturbing,” and called for Delaney Hall to be closed immediately.

“The medical neglect—denying people access to potentially life-saving care and withholding necessary medicine—is abhorrent,” Nadler wrote.

In a series of X posts on May 24, Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) said that when he visited the facility, he saw a pregnant woman who was allegedly unable to receive full obstetric care.

In a May 25 statement, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) dismissed allegations against Delaney Hall.

The detainees receive three meals a day, clothing, clean water, shower facilities, bedding, toiletries, and soap. These individuals also have access to medical care, lawyers, and phones.

“In fact, ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens,” the department said.

Lauren Bis, acting assistant secretary at the DHS Office of Public Affairs, said that the allegations were a political stunt by New Jersey politicians and that there was no hunger strike, abuse, or subprime conditions at the facility.

“These sanctuary politicians should be thanking ICE law enforcement for removing murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and drug traffickers from their communities. We need these sanctuary politicians to stop peddling this garbage and cooperate with us to get these criminals out of their state,” Bis said.

“These types of smears are contributing to our officers facing a more than 1,300 percent increase in assaults against them as they remove the worst of the worst.”

During a cabinet meeting on May 27, President Donald Trump praised federal immigration officials while calling the protestors outside Delaney Hall “fake” and “paid for.”

Meanwhile, in a May 30 post on X, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin thanked the FBI for arresting the individual who threatened to kill the ICE officer and his family.

“Our officers are facing an 8,000 percent increase in death threats against them as they put their lives on the line to arrest the worst of the worst. @POTUS and I will always stand with our law enforcement,” Mullin wrote.