Ten Charged After Planned Ambush Injures Officer at Texas ICE Detention Center

Ten individuals were arrested and charged with attempted murder after a coordinated ambush outside the Prairieland Detention Center, an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas, on the Fourth of July. The group, dressed in black military-style clothing and equipped with firearms, body armor, and radios, first used fireworks and vandalism to lure ICE personnel outside before firing on unarmed correctional officers and an arriving police officer, who was shot in the neck but later released from the hospital. Authorities recovered weapons, tactical gear, anti-ICE flyers, and graffiti with messages like 'ICE pig' and 'Resist fascism, fight oligarchy' at the scene. Acting U.S. Attorney Nancy Larson emphasized this was a deliberate violent attack rather than a protest, with the assailants attempting to kill federal officers. The shootings coincide with increased deportation enforcement under President Donald Trump's administration, which recently passed a significant spending bill accelerating such efforts. Investigations are ongoing into the motives and possible connections to other similar attacks in Texas.