The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that a San Antonio City Council candidate called for the shooting of ICE agents on the streets of Los Angeles. The threat by the self-described Democrat political consultant comes as ICE agents are increasingly assaulted, and a Border Patrol station in Texas came under attack from a gunman.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin posted on social media that San Antonio City Council Candidate Matthew Gauna called for the killing of ICE agents in Los Angeles. “I wanna see a few dead ICE agents Los Angeles! Don’t let me down.”
San Antonio City Council candidate calls for the killing of @ICEgov law enforcement officers in Los Angeles.
— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) July 8, 2025
Depraved.
We’ll see you soon, @gauna_matty_5th. https://t.co/TVcQeM4zba pic.twitter.com/cMhtzHSPrV
McLaughlin called the threat “depraved.”
The post by Gauna was subsequently removed, but not before others on X grabbed screenshots of the threat calling for the assassination of ICE agents.
Looks like he deleted it. pic.twitter.com/LXEgBPEOjK
— Marco Inaros (@Marco20307855) July 8, 2025
Gauna’s post appears to be a reply to a Fox News post by Bill Melugin.
backed some up before he deleted them...https://t.co/DbJkX4kxHp pic.twitter.com/4CVYP8fASf
— Apple Lamps (@lamps_apple) July 8, 2025
Gauna appeared to have been angered by the enforcement action in Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park. During the raid, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass confronted ICE agents and military personnel, as reported by Breitbart News.
Federal authorities today launched one of the largest enforcement operations to date in the MacArthur Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, which is known as a hotbed of MS-13 gang activity with a large illegal immigrant population.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 7, 2025
Instead of backing off, ICE is doubling down in… pic.twitter.com/XUKFmA7h98
The post also came on the same day that Ryan Louis Mosqueda donned tactical gear and attacked a U.S. Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas. Law enforcement officers and agents quickly responded, neutralizing the attacker, as reported by Breitbart.
Many on social media quickly called for the arrest and prosecution of Gauna.
Hard time behind bars will do for Matt.
— Kurt Schemers (@KurtSchemers) July 8, 2025
Texas Attorney General candidate Aaron Reitz also called for Gauna’s arrest.
Matthew Gauna recently ran for San Antonio City Council. Local elections were this past May and June. He lost and, so far as I can tell, is back to being a student at UTSA. Just today, he called for the deaths of federal law enforcement officers, saying in a now-deleted X post,… pic.twitter.com/MaaKGOpXZI
— Aaron Reitz (@aaron_reitz) July 8, 2025
McLaughlin seemed to be of the same mindset. “We’ll see you soon,” she said in her post.
Bob Price is the Breitbart Texas-Border team’s associate editor and senior news contributor. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday morning talk show. He is a U.S. Air Force veteran and serves as president of Blue Wonder Gun Care Products.
