It should be this week's biggest story: Violent assailants are targeting on-the-job federal law enforcement officials with murderous intent.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is bearing the brunt of these assaults, with aggression against ICE agents up 700% compared to the same time last year.
Blame the Democrats -- as their unhinged rhetoric turbocharges the left's "assassination culture."
On Thursday, a rioter trying to stop an ICE raid on a marijuana farm in Camarillo, Calif., shot a gun at agents, while other protesters pelted federal vehicles with large rocks.
Agents found 10 underage illegal immigrants working at the farm, which is now being investigated for child labor violations.
Days earlier, on July 4, a masked and armed mob dressed in tactical gear attacked anICE facility in Alvarado, Texas.
A local police officer was shot in the neck as assailants rioted and defaced officers' vehicles with graffiti reading "traitor" and "ICE pig."
On Monday, a gunman ambushed Border Patrol agents in McAllen, Texas.
Two officers and a federal employee were injured, one shot in the knee, before the shooter was neutralized.
These attacks are escalating in frequency and ferocity.
Earlier this year, Tesla dealerships were firebombed and shot at while conservative influencers, as well as their family members, were menaced by dangerous "swatting" calls that sent armed officers to their homes.
In April I described in these pages a survey in which frightening numbers of left-leaning Americans said that political violence -- up to and including assassination -- can be "acceptable."
"It certainly feels like a powder keg," I wrote, "as violence is excused and celebrated online as never before."
Now that keg is exploding in our streets.
We understand that people in public-facing roles are taking a risk when they do their jobs.
It's why assaulting a bus driver, say, carries a heavier penalty than raging at a co-worker.
But Democrats are doing nothing to calm their base's insane fury.
Instead, they're openly demonizing ICE agents, often comparing them to the Gestapo in Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.
On Tuesday, CNN's Tiffany Cross shrieked that the feds are "kidnapping people and transporting them to concentration camps."
Hardly the same as getting a free ticket back to your home country.
Democrats like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are also whipping their followers into a frenzy over ICE agents who wear masks when conducting raids.
"Every single ICE agent who's engaged in this aggressive overreach and are trying to hide their identities from the American people will be unsuccessful," Jeffries railed last month.
"Every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will, of course, be identified."
For what purpose if not to harm them?
Meanwhile, the lefty media is lending an assist, portraying ICE as a uniquely dangerous agency out of step with the American public.
Agents are "miserable," claimed the Atlantic's Nick Miroff, because they're "vilified by broad swaths of the public."
"The overreach we're seeing in terms of what ICE is doing now is not commensurate with what the American public wants," declared liberal commentator Jessica Tarlov on Fox News, who insisted that voters don't want those who merely crossed into our country illegally to be deported.
False: Multiple recent polls find a majority of Americans in favor of deporting all illegal immigrants, not just those who committed further crimes after entering -- from 55% (The New York Times) to 64% (Marquette).
No, it's no great mystery what Americans want.
Voters elected Donald Trump on the explicit promise that he would end the chaos Joe Biden allowed to reign on our border -- and deport those who broke our laws and came here illegally.
The disorder of the last few years left Americans exhausted.
They picked Trump to clean house.
Democrats, and their media friends, are doing everything they can to stop him from doing it.
Instead of giving their followers permission to turn their anger into violence, they need to help their base accept reality. Rage and fury at this level can easily spread out of control.
Yet they're showing no signs of doing so.
"Our own base is telling us . . . there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public," an unnamed Democratic House member told Axios this week.
"Some of them have suggested . . . what we really need to do is be willing to get shot" in anti-ICE protests.
"Civility isn't working," another House Democrat said.
This sadistic lust for violence must be put down, hard.
Democrats need to find the bravery to tell their leftist flank: Enough.