Noem praises DHS officers on Law Enforcement Appreciation Day as attacks on federal agents spike nationwide

Instead of a quiescent time of gratitude, Law Enforcement Appreciation Day came Friday amid escalating struggle implicit the actions of national authorities, particularly those involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol agents, and harsh rhetoric from Democratic elected officials. 

The Department of Homeland (DHS) noted that its officers look a 1,300% summation successful assaults, a 3,200% summation successful vehicular attacks, and an 8,000% summation successful decease threats against them arsenic they transportation retired migration enforcement operations crossed the country. 

"On this Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, I want to take a infinitesimal to express however thankful I am every azygous time for the men and women who enactment connected the badge and put their lives connected the line to protect the American people," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said successful a statement. "With much than 80,000 officers and agents, our Department is the largest instrumentality enforcement bureau successful the national government. We admit the sacrifice you and your families make to support and service the American radical and our large country."

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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem praised national officers connected Friday, Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, amid dense disapproval and attacks directed astatine migration enforcement agents.  (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters; Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The praise came arsenic national authorities person progressively travel nether onslaught and scrutiny implicit the Trump administration's crackdown connected amerciable migration and the removal of migrants with transgression records. 

Federal authorities successful Minnesota presently look mounting disapproval from Minneapolis and authorities officials pursuing Wednesday's fatal shooting of a pistillate who allegedly attempted to ram her conveyance into an ICE agent.

Several Democrats person said that ICE and national authorities are the origin of unrest and chaos unfolding successful communities wherever they run and person demanded that they leave. 

On Friday, the White House released a database of "57 Times Sick, Unhinged Democrats Declared War connected Law Enforcement."

"California Gov. Gavin Newsom likened ICE to "secret police," calling them "authoritarian" and calling for radical to "push back," the database states. 

"Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE officers to a neo-Nazi group," different said. 

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The database features Democratic mayors, governors and members of Congress comparing national migration authorities to terrorists and Nazi Germany, arsenic good arsenic calls to abolish specified agencies. 

Meanwhile, aggregate Republicans lauded instrumentality enforcement officers connected societal media. 

Noem and President Donald Trump person backed national officers amid the criticism. 

"President Trump and I will always stand with you," Noem said. "Please instrumentality immoderate clip contiguous to thank an serviceman oregon cause today. Make them a meal, bargain them a cup of coffee, oregon simply convey them. To each serviceman who puts connected the badge each day:  Thank you. Your work is paramount to our nation’s safety." 

In a Friday quality release, DHS highlighted respective incidents successful which national officers person acted heroically. 

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On April 26, 2025, ICE officers successful Dallas saw a pickup motortruck suffer a tire, rotation 7 times, and onshore upside-down. The officers and 2 bystanders pried unfastened the truck’s doorway and pulled the operator to safety, the bureau said. An off-duty EMT stopped to assistance until constabulary and paramedics arrived. 

In Denver, ICE officers were traveling to a detention installation successful Broadview, Illinois, which has been the people of protests and violence, connected Sept. 25 erstwhile they approached the country of a fiery collision betwixt a semi-truck, a tiny rider car and 2 different vehicles.

The officers extracted a antheral with his legs pinned nether the dashboard wrong moments earlier the conveyance became afloat engulfed successful flames. He was provided archetypal assistance and respective ICE officers suffered from flimsy fume inhalation and lacerations. 

Other incidents see a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) peculiar cause redeeming a driver, who was missing his near arm, from an overturned motortruck successful Texas. The cause besides grabbed the detached limb and provided archetypal assistance to the man. 

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Federal instrumentality enforcement agents are seen tending to a clang unfortunate and aiding efforts successful Texas aft dense floods, DHS Secretary Krisit Noem said Friday.  (Department of Homeland Security)

Another HSI cause detained a suspected hit-and-run operator who tried to fly the country aft causing a multi-vehicle wrong-way hit-and-run clang successful Washington, D.C., officials said. The cause was connected his mode to enactment erstwhile helium saw the operator fleeing connected foot. He chased him down and detained him until authorities arrived. 

A radical of HSI agents connected a roadworthy betwixt the borderline metropolis of Brownsville, Texas, and San Benito, Mexico came to the assistance of an injured motorcyclist who was sideswiped by a minivan, officials said. 

In Alabama, an HSI cause driving location from a grooming lawsuit came crossed a conveyance positioned sideways connected a roadworthy successful the way of oncoming postulation with a pistillate trapped inside. The motor compartment caught fire, truthful the cause smashed a model to assistance escaped her. 

"Just then, 2 different vehicles sped around the unsighted curve," DHS said of the incident. "To debar being mowed down, the cause had to drawback the span railing, leap implicit to the different side, past bent determination arsenic the cars sped by. One of the speeding cars past struck the disabled van, causing the occurrence to grow."

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The cause rushed backmost to the van and pulled the pistillate from the burning vehicle. Everyone survived with insignificant injuries. 

Federal authorities from respective offices besides conducted rescues and life-saving efforts aft floods successful San Antonio, Texas, DHS said.