Spurred on by Democrat leadership’s violent rhetoric, threats against ICE officers have escalated dramatically. On Monday evening, the Department of Homeland Security released an audio recording of a disturbing voicemail sent to a Minnesota-based Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

The caller, described as a deranged leftist, urged the agent to commit suicide and made sickening wishes for his family’s deaths. In the message, the caller stated: “I hope your wife dies. I hope your mom and dad die. I hope everything wrong that could go [on] in your life happens. I hope you have the most miserable life.” The caller also wished for the agent to be hit by a transit vehicle and face a divorce after his apparent wife cheated on him due to medical complications.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin blamed local “sanctuary politicians” for inciting such “threatening rhetoric and unprecedented violence” against federal law enforcement. She cited repeated comparisons between ICE and the German Nazi “Gestapo,” as well as 1800s-era slave patrols.

McLaughlin noted that ICE has faced an 8,000% increase in death threats and a 1,300% rise in assaults during the second Trump administration despite conducting operations to remove “rapists, terrorists and gang members from American neighborhoods.”

She stated: “The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, we just want to go home to our families at night.”

One Minnesota rioter who stole an ICE agent’s personal identification and used it to leave death threats on his voicemail has been arrested.

The DHS official emphasized that whoever is behind such actions “needs to be locked up — either in a prison or mental institution.”