Border Agent Ambush Shows Dems Need To 'tone Down Rhetoric,' White House Says, Pushing Aoc To Meet With Ice

The White House is calling connected Democrats successful Congress to ramp down heated connection toward U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and agents for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), aft a gunman opened occurrence upon Border Patrol agents astatine an annex installation successful McAllen, Texas, Monday. 

The Department of Homeland Security reported earlier successful July that assaults against ICE officers and different national migration agents have risen astir 700% successful comparison to 2024. 

Specifically, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Democrats for illustration Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., should group up a gathering pinch ICE and CBP agents. 

"We surely telephone connected Democrats to reside down their rhetoric against ICE and Border Patrol agents, who, again, are mundane men and women. I would promote AOC and different Democrats to really meet pinch nan United States Border Patrol," Leavitt told reporters connected Monday. "These are honorable Americans who are conscionable simply trying to do their occupation to enforce nan law. They spell location to their families each night, conscionable for illustration we each do, and they merit respect and dignity for trying to enforce our nation's migration laws and to region nationalist information threats from our communities." 

A spokesperson for Ocasio-Cortez did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital. 

This is simply a breaking news communicative and will beryllium updated. 

Fox News' Danielle Wallace and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.