Watch: Ice Agents Fight Off Masked Mob Outside Blue City Immigration Court

A confrontation erupted extracurricular nan San Francisco Immigration Court this week, arsenic video shared by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) captured a tense altercation betwixt agents and protesters.

The clash, which took spot Tuesday, is nan latest successful a increasing bid of confrontations pinch national migration officers. 

According to ICE, assaults connected migration agents person surged astir 700% compared to past year.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conflict pinch protesters successful San Francisco connected Tuesday, July 8. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via X)

Footage posted by nan agency connected X shows masked protesters scuffling pinch ICE agents wielding batons. 

"Get back, get back," agents are heard many times telling protesters.

"Shame connected you, shame connected you," protesters are heard yelling, amid screams. 

At 1 point, demonstrators appeared to effort entree to a achromatic ICE SUV parked extracurricular nan courthouse. A protester is seen lunging astatine officers arsenic they push back, and respective individuals climb onto nan hood of nan vehicle.

"This behaviour is NOT protesting," ICE wrote successful a station Thursday. "It’s assaulting national labor while they’re connected duty. It’s impeding national officers. It’s ILLEGAL. It’s DANGEROUS. And it will NOT extremity america from enforcing migration law."

Protesters appeared to effort to summation entree to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement achromatic van amid protests successful San Francisco. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via X)

Many of nan demonstrators were seen wearing keffiyeh scarves, a awesome often associated pinch pro-Palestinian activism. 

The group reportedly sought to forestall ICE from placing a detained migrant into nan van, though nan individual's personality and ineligible position were not disclosed.

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According to section outlet Mission Local, nan protestation was successful consequence to nan detainment of a circumstantial migrant, but further specifications of nan lawsuit person not been made public. 

An ICE spokesperson told Fox News Digital that rioters "violently attacked and obstructed national rule enforcement officers who were exercising their sworn duties." 

"These convulsive individuals person zero respect for nan norm of rule and casually break it. This type of vile behaviour has led to a 700% summation successful assaults against ICE officers, and conscionable past week, a coordinated onslaught astatine an ICE installation led to an serviceman being shot," they said. "Under Secretary Noem’s leadership, DHS will not tolerate unit against officers, and those responsible will beryllium held accountable."

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As nan Trump management continues to ramp up migration enforcement, individuals against nan management person actively opposed ICE operations, peculiarly nan believe of detaining individuals astatine migration courthouses.

Demonstrators person called for an extremity to ICE agents operating successful plainclothes and utilizing unmarked vehicles, practices they reason lend to fearfulness and deficiency of accountability. 

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The Visible Identification Standards for Immigration-Based Law Enforcement (VISIBLE) Act, introduced by Democratic Sens. Alex Padilla of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey, intends to prohibition migration officers from concealing their identities while engaged successful enforcement activities.

"For weeks, Americans person watched national agents pinch nary visible recognition detain group disconnected nan streets and instill fearfulness successful communities crossed nan country," Booker said of nan measure Tuesday. "Reports of individuals impersonating ICE officers person only accrued nan consequence to nationalist and serviceman safety. The deficiency of visible recognition and azygous standards for migration enforcement officers has created confusion, stoked fearfulness and undermined nationalist spot successful rule enforcement."