America is under siege not just at the border but inside our cities, and the Department of Homeland Security’s own accounts make that crystal clear: cartel networks are allegedly placing bounties and circulating photos of federal immigration officers, turning doxxing and organized violence into a business model that targets those who keep our communities safe. This is not hyperbole; senior DHS officials and homeland-security voices have warned that these threats are real and growing, and we cannot afford to treat them like partisan talking points.
Tech platforms that once hid behind “free speech” excuses are finally beginning to act, after the Justice Department and federal outreach pushed Meta to take down a group accused of coordinating harassment and doxxing of ICE agents in Chicago. Good — but the takedown is only a bandage on a gaping wound: Big Tech’s platforms long enabled organized campaigns that compromised officer safety and empowered violent actors to coordinate across state lines.
Even more disturbing are reports that domestic extremist collectives have provided on-the-ground logistical support that shields cartel-linked individuals during enforcement actions, facilitating doxxing, pre-staged protests, and real-time interference with federal operations. Whether you call them Antifa, anarchists, or paid agitators, their actions are not benign protest — they are enablers of transnational criminal networks who want our laws and our officers dismantled.
Rob Schmitt was right to call out the moral rot enabling this violence: when left-wing media and Democrat politicians cheer or excuse attacks on law enforcement, it creates a permissive atmosphere that criminal enterprises and their domestic collaborators happily exploit. Conservatives have warned for years that sloppy rhetoric and sympathetic coverage of anti-police mobs would lead to blowback, and now we’re watching the predictable result play out on the nightly news.
The political leaders who talk tough but then bless “ICE-free zones” or refuse to condemn doxxing campaigns share responsibility for the escalation; talk of sanctuary policies and public virtue-signaling bleeds into operational decisions that endanger federal officers on the ground. If local officials prioritize political theater over public safety, they should be held accountable while federal authorities protect the men and women doing the dangerous work.
It’s time for action: Congress and the administration must tighten penalties for doxxing and those who coordinate with foreign criminal networks, tech companies must be forced to stop serving as staging grounds for violence, and decent Americans must stand with law enforcement instead of celebrating their demise. We owe our brave officers more than platitudes — we owe them laws, resources, and the full force of the federal government to disrupt cartels and the American allies who put bounties and hit-jobs on our heroes.
