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Workplace safety / incident data from ICE (or an independent source) show an increase in reported assaults on ICE officers of more than 1,300% compared with the baseline period referenced by ICE.
DHS/ICE did publicly claim that “heated rhetoric” has led to a more than 1,300% increase in assaults on ICE officers (DHS press releases cite figures such as 275 assaults in 2025 vs. 19 in 2024, a ≈1,347% jump). Independent reporting and analysis (e.g., Los Angeles Times, NPR, Colorado Public Radio, and fact-checkers) found the agency has not released an underlying incident dataset, that many alleged incidents produced no injury, that charging patterns and definitions vary, and that court records in sampled districts show only a modest rise (roughly mid‑20% range), making the headline percentage misleading without DHS’s raw data and context. Verdict: Misleading — ICE/DHS did make the >1,300% claim, but the figure is based on a narrow baseline and unreleased internal counts and is contradicted or undermined by independent analyses and available public records, so presenting it without that context distorts the situation.