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Lucy Campbell

Texas Ice facility shooting: Republicans blame ‘radical left’ as Democrats focus on victims and gun control

a man in a suit speaks near a US flag
JD Vance speaks in Concord, North Carolina, on Wednesday. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

A deadly shooting at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in Dallas has been met with markedly different reactions from the political right and left.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed shortly after the news broke that detainees were the victims of the sniper attack on the facility and that no federal agents had been injured. The president and his allies, however, were quick to frame the shooting as an attack on Ice and place blame on the “radical left”.

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