There used to be a line in this country. You didn’t cross it. You didn’t threaten kids. You didn’t drag families into political fights. And you sure as hell didn’t call the men and women tasked with enforcing the law “Nazis” just because you don’t like the laws they’re enforcing.
But here we are.
This week, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons revealed something that should have made front-page news. It didn’t. In a video posted to X, Lyons said a left-wing activist was arrested by ICE and the United States Secret Service. Not for peaceful protest. Not for civil disobedience. This individual was targeting the children of ICE agents. Posting their faces online. Sharing their Instagram accounts. Doxxing their families.
Encouraging gangs and others to rise against – or kill – ICE officers is a crime, and you will be prosecuted.
“Is that the issue here, that were upset about the masks; or is anyone upset at the fact that ICE officers’ families were labeled terrorists?” —ICE Acting Director Todd… pic.twitter.com/gJ7cHlq8GZ
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) June 30, 2025
Just take a moment and let that settle.
These are federal agents doing their jobs—many of whom have served under both Democrat and Republican administrations. Now they’re being hunted online. Not because they broke the law, but because they enforce it. And it’s not just about harassment at work anymore. According to Lyons, many ICE officers now wear masks—not to hide from criminals in the field, but to protect their identities and keep their spouses and kids from becoming the next target.
And it gets worse.
Lyons didn’t stop with that one case. He brought receipts.
He pointed to a video from Cudahy, California’s Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez. In it, Gonzalez appears to suggest it’s time for the 18th Street Gang—one of the most violent gangs in America—to “push back” against ICE. Her words: “You guys tag everything up, claiming hood. Now that your hood is being invaded by the biggest gang there is, there ain’t a peep out of you.”
EXCLUSIVE: Per federal sources, the vice mayor of Cudahy, a city in southeast LA County, is under FBI investigation after she allegedly posted a video to social media in which she appears to call for 18th Street & Florencia 13 gang members in LA to defend their territory from… pic.twitter.com/afJfxeSCBb
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 24, 2025
That’s not hyperbole. That’s a sitting elected official calling federal agents “the biggest gang” and wondering out loud why actual gang members aren’t retaliating. ICE does raids. 18th Street does murders. And someone in public office just blurred the line between them.
The FBI is now reportedly investigating Gonzalez’s comments. And they should be. Because when public officials start speaking in coded threats, referencing criminal gangs like they’re neighborhood watch groups, we’re in uncharted territory.
And if you think that’s where the madness ends, think again.
Lyons also exposed a viral TikTok video in which an activist went far beyond the line of rhetoric. No protest. No resistance. Just a call to arms. “This is about get a gun and start killing ICE agents,” the person said. The video racked up thousands of views before it was finally taken down—but by then, the message had already spread.
The facts speak for themselves. Assaults on ICE agents have risen 500% since 2017. That number isn’t shrinking. These officers—many of whom have families, serve with distinction, and operate under long-standing immigration laws—are being painted as villains, branded as Nazis, and now, targeted in real life.
Meanwhile, political leaders stay quiet. The media buries the lead. And threats against government workers and their children are treated like just another headline in the endless churn of outrage.
So what now?
We’ve reached a tipping point. One side says nothing—shrugs while federal employees are doxxed, smeared, and threatened with violence. The other asks where it ends. Where the line is. And why no one seems interested in defending the people who protect our laws.
Because here’s the real question—one that should be echoing through every newsroom and Capitol hallway:
When threats against children become background noise, what comes next?
