NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release:

WASHINGTON - The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the following statement after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility was firebombed in Atlanta, Georgia.

On the evening of October 20, 2026, a male suspect threw an improvised incendiary device toward the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Field Office in Atlanta. Miraculously, the device did not reach the facility, as it became caught on the top of the perimeter fence.

"This latest attack is part of a dangerous and unacceptable escalation of violence against the men and women of ICE who are simply enforcing the laws of the United Sta...