Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday night that she is deploying Department of Justice (DOJ) agents to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities and “wherever” federal immigration officers come “under siege.” 

“I have witnessed the continued onslaught of violence perpetrated against ICE officers across our country. The Department of Justice will not stand idly by in the face of such lawlessness,” Bondi said in a post on social platform X. 

“At my direction, I am deploying DOJ agents to ICE facilities—and wherever ICE comes under siege—to safeguard federal agents, protect federal property, and immediately arrest all individuals engaged in any federal crime,” she continued.

Bondi’s announcement came just days after a shooting at a Dallas ICE field office, where one detainee was killed, and two others were seriously injured, an attack the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas called the “very definition of terrorism.” 

Since President Trump returned to the White House and cracked on immigration, protests against ICE have popped up at various agencies’ field offices across the country.

Last week, anti-ICE protestors clashed with federal immigration officers at a Broadview, Ill. detention facility where migrants are held for processing. 

On Friday, Bondi said she is instructing Joint Terrorism Task Forces around the country to “disrupt and investigate all entities and individuals engaged in acts of domestic terrorism, including the repeated acts of violence and obstruction against federal agents.” 

“The Department of Justice will seek the most serious available charges against all participants in these criminal mobs, including conspiracy offenses, assault offenses, civil disorder offenses and terrorism offenses. While these never-ending attacks are designed to break our will, they only strengthen our resolve to complete the work begun,” Bondi said in the statement. 

The attorney general directed the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Marshals Service to “accelerate our efforts alongside the Department of Homeland Security to locate, apprehend, detain, prosecute and remove all illegal aliens present in our country.”

“The rule of law will prevail,” she added.