Acting ICE director joins Glenn Beck to address deadly Dallas shooting investigation

Questions are still unanswered after a gunman opened fire at a Dallas ICE facility on Wednesday morning.

Todd Lyons, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, spoke with Glenn Beck on "The Glenn Beck Program" Thursday morning to give an update on the investigation and to discuss the current milieu of violence in our country.

'I've never seen anything like this in my career.'

Beck started the interview with a question about the rising tide of violence in the United States. Lyons told him, "I've never seen anything like this in my career." However, Lyons added that the violence "won't deter us," noting that brave law enforcement officers continued their dangerous work on Thursday.

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While Lyons didn't want to get ahead of the official investigation, he did dispel media rumors about the shooter's motive after the three victims, two murdered and one injured, were determined to be immigration detainees. Lyons told Beck this was "a pure attack on ICE law enforcement and ICE's mission."

"He didn't know who was in the vehicle," Lyons added. It would be "dead wrong" to suggest any other motive other than "anti-ICE," as was written on the unspent shell and demonstrated by the nature of the shooting.

They also discussed the Trump administration's crackdown on left-wing terrorism, particularly concerning reports about the John Brown Gun Club's alleged "Hey, fascist! Catch!" posters. Lyons suggested that many of these left-wing agitators are "professional" with "no ties to the community" — all the more reason to fight against them as domestic terrorists.

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Beck also asked Lyons about the coverage of a recent arrest made by law enforcement that received "distorted" coverage by NBC and other outlets. NBC reported that law enforcement "held" a 5-year-old autistic girl hostage in an attempt to negotiate the arrest of the girl's father. According to DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, the man "fled from the car, gave officers the double middle finger, and darted inside his house. He abandoned his 5-year-old daughter in the car."

NBC later issued a correction, stating that its initial reporting "mischaracterized the activities of ICE agents in the video."

Lyons made it clear that the father fled the vehicle and that law enforcement simply took care of the girl during that time.

Beck and Lyons also took aim at Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom's recent comments about ICE being "authoritarian." "The governor shouldn't have said that," Lyons told Beck. He added that the masks worn by law enforcement are a matter of safety as officers have seen a rise in doxxing and threats to their livelihood.

Lyons announced that the U.S. attorney will be holding a press conference Thursday afternoon.

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