House republicans push more severe sanctions for assaults against ice agents

First on Fox: House Republicans advance the legislation to stiffen sanctions for people recognized as guilty of aggression or stack of immigration and customs’ application (ICE) agents, degenerating the partisan battle against illegal immigration and the application of crime.

The representative Ashley Hinson, R -Iwa, presented the “Protect and Respect Ice Act”, supported by the representatives Brad Knott, RN.C., and Diana Harshbarger, R-Tenn. The measure would double the maximum prison sentence and the fines for having attacked, resisted or hindered an ice agent or an employee.

The Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) reported in July that ice officials had increased 830% of attacks between the end of January and mid-July compared to the same period in 2024.

The representative Ashley Hinson presents a bill to radically hike penalties for the assault of ice officers. (Christopher Dilts / Getty Images)

A spokesperson for Hinson told Fox News Digital that the bill was aimed at detering violence by anti-ice demonstrators targeting federal agents.

Hinson equaled the wave of attacks to progressive activists.

“Instead of standing with the police, the left-handed left sides with dangerous illegal extraterrestrials and even want to strip the ice agents of the equipment that assure them. It is unacceptable,” she told Fox News Digital.

President Donald Trump speaks alongside the FIFA World Cup trophy at the White House Oval Office on August 22, 2025 in Washington. (AP photo / Jacquelyn Martin)

“Anyone who has attacked an ice agent has to face the most severe punishment as possible.”

Congress Republicans and Trump administration have already increased ice resources since the retirement of the federal government earlier this year.

President Donald Trump also ordered ice -directed raids in major American cities, causing reactions to the scale of Democrats and progressive groups.

People protest against ice raids at the town hall of San Antonio on June 11, 2025 in San Antonio, Texas. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)

Chicago is would have been the last city Preparation of a repression of ice, in parallel with a deployment of troops from the National Guard. Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker both criticized this decision.

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Johnson signed an executive decree last week, prohibiting the Chicago police from cooperating with “all the illegal or unconstitutional actions undertaken by the federal police or the American armed forces in the city of Chicago”.