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Rantz: ICE to deploy tactical agents to Seattle amidst ongoing threats from Antifa, activists

Jun 11, 2025, 8:48 AM

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As ICE is readying to deploy tactical teams to Seattle, Antifa thugs continue their assault on law enforcement and their perceived enemies. (Screengrab: Andrea Suarez/We Heart Seattle)

(Screengrab: Andrea Suarez/We Heart Seattle)

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will its Special Response Teams (SRTs) to Seattle and four other Democrat-run cities to address escalating violence or threats thereof, according to CBS News.

The tactical units participate in high-risk operations, suggesting the possibility of broader and more dangerous ICE raids in the Seattle area. They were recently utilized in Los Angeles to target violent criminal illegal immigrants.

Seattle isn’t alone in getting SRTs. Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and Northern Virginia are also on the list.

ICE deploying tactical agents as raid info is leaked

SRTs are not merely intended to protect ICE agents from the criminals they’re targeting.

ICE Seattle Field Office Director Cammilla Wamsley explained to “The Jason Rantz Show” on KTTH that her office alerts local law enforcement agencies when her agents are targeting undocumented immigrants who are in the country illegally. The coordination is intended to cut down on surprises or any “blue-on-blue shooting.” However, she alleged that staff members at the Seattle Police Department (SPD) have leaked information about their raids to local media.

“We do have some situations with some local police agencies in which we struggle with that notification because it is leaked to the media as soon as we make those notifications,” Wamsley explained exclusively on “The Jason Rantz Show” on KTTH. “And that endangers my workforce. It causes issues with the public. We鈥檙e trying to work through those concerns with our partners.”

There have also been instances in Chicago, where SRTs are also headed, where raids have been leaked.

SRTs ensure safety

Every leak increases the likelihood that activists learn of the raid and either mobilize at its location or tip off violent criminals that they’re about to be targeted. This could lead to agent injury or death.

Inspired by the riots and lawlessness in Los Angeles, Seattle activists, including Antifa, have been escalating their violence against federal agents.

On Tuesday, a group of radicals dressed in black bloc vandalized the federal building in downtown Seattle, , and attempted to injure federal law enforcement officials. Seattle Police brass allowed the situation to escalate, leading to an assault of We Heart Seattle founder Andrea Suarez, who was on the scene to document the lawlessness.

Two people were arrested.

There is a larger event planned Wednesday evening at Cal Anderson Park, across the street from the East Precinct.

ICE and Trump administration wise to send in support to Seattle

Seattle officials repeatedly put progressive ideology and virtue signaling above public safety.

This isn’t complicated. ICE SRTs are necessary because Seattle鈥檚 political leadership continues failing at its most fundamental duty鈥攑rotecting citizens from violent crime and enforcing the rule of law.

Rather than take a stand against violent criminal illegal immigrants, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell and his political appointee, Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes, have who support open borders. Barnes even he “will probably go to jail” under Trump (which actually suggests he would be willing to break the law because he’s a left-wing ideologue before he’s a member of law enforcement).

Deploying SRTs sends a clear message to Seattle.聽If local leaders won鈥檛 uphold their responsibilities, federal agencies must step in.

SRTs aren鈥檛 some oppressive occupying force from ICE; they鈥檙e a necessary response to politicians who have abandoned public safety for cheap political points. Seattle residents deserve protection鈥攏ot appeasement politics and reckless endangerment.

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