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Data from DHS/agency reports and independent statistics corroborate whether assaults on federal law enforcement increased by more than 1,300% over a specified baseline and timeframe.
Evidence confirms that the Department of Homeland Security has publicly asserted that assaults on its law enforcement officers have risen by more than 1,300%, but the underlying data and framing are highly selective and not transparently documented. A January 8, 2026 DHS press release reports 275 assaults on ICE officers from 20 January–31 December 2025 versus 19 in the same period in 2024, which indeed represents roughly a 1,347% increase, but these are ICE-specific numbers, not all federal law enforcement, and DHS provides no detailed breakdown of what counts as an “assault” or how reporting practices may have changed. External reporting and BBC Verify note that DHS has repeatedly used very large percentage increases in assaults and vehicular attacks without publishing full underlying datasets or clear definitions, and that ICE has expanded both its workforce and enforcement activity under the Trump administration, which would itself tend to increase absolute numbers of confrontations. Because the claim accurately reflects an internal DHS year‑over‑year comparison but presents a dramatic, ICE‑specific spike as a generalized crisis for all federal officers without sufficient methodological transparency or context about changing operations, the statement is best characterized as misleading, not strictly true or false.