A 27-year-old man was killed Monday after opening fire at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, authorities said.

Federal agents returned fire at the man, who had an assault rifle and was carrying a utility vest, McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez told reporters Monday morning.

Rodriguez identified the suspect as Ryan Louis Mosqueda.

Law enforcement said they found another rifle and more ammunition. Rodriguez said the man’s motive is currently unknown.

One officer was injured in the shooting. Rodriguez said it was unclear if the injury was from shrapnel or a bullet.

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    opening fire at a U.S. Border Patrol facility … motive is currently unknown.

    Man shoots nazis, motive unknown 🤔

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          Yeah. It really doesn’t have to be political brain rot anymore.

          Maybe it’s not in this case…we’ll see. But we’re going to have cases of complete normies going “nothing left to lose” after their loved ones or friends are taken/killed by ICE.

          Imagine finding out your partner/kids were taken from their job/school. You can’t. I can’t. There is no law or order that matters to people when the “law and order” are the ones doing it.

          And at some point, hopefully, we all realize that those people are the sane ones. The people standing by and watching it happen well…

          It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

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      Right? Remember when “because they were fucking Nazis” would have been the presumed motive?

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    Where’s all the people complaining about the lack of people trying to start stuff with feds?

    Almost like fighting the way they want to be fought doesn’t accomplish Jack and shit.

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    Federal agents returned fire at the man, who had an assault rifle

    No he didn’t. Unless he robbed an army base, he probably had a regular old AR15

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      Basically every “group plot” I can think of in the last 20 years (regardless of ideology or motive) has been broken up by one or more undercovers or informants before they can do anything.

      Maybe his methodology was dumb but reaching out to the ether for partners in crime is dumber.

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      I’ve been waiting for a big false flag attack to be used as an excuse to ramp things up and possibly declare martial law.

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      America makes suicide killers… did you think it was only going to happen in the other countries they fuck over? America basically used the same tactics that they use in other countries to throw this coup in America. They know what they are doing. The have experience with all this already.

      crying out how bad it is accomplishes nothing… they already know… they don’t care… people saying how bad it is isn’t going to change anything. People need to understand war, crime, and heartlessness if they want to go against this. You’re not going to overcome them by being nice.

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    This is sad. It sucks. You want to say that violence isn’t the answer, but it’s easy to see how people hit their breaking point. ICE agents kidnapping people is horrible. McAllen is poor. The people who work in that ICE facility are likely just happy to have a job with benefits that feeds their families.

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      Nah. Fuck them.
      You don’t say that about the IDF soldiers dropping the bombs on the hospital. “They just wanted to pay their rent - they didn’t ask to kill orphans” Get the fuck outta here.

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          There are proactive steps that separate a forced conscript and a bomb dropper.

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          Sort of. There are forms of alternative service. Or you could just go to jail instead.

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      That’s not just a job though. It’s a Nazi job. You are required to treat people like animals. If you qualify for that job you are disqualified for life.

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      You had me till the last sentence.

      The people who work in that ICE facility are likely just happy to have a job with benefits that feeds their families.

      Find a fucking different job

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      My dude. We are well past the point where it is ok to say " Im just doing my job" in the midst of fascism. No it is literally not okay to work for ICE (gestapo) and kidnap people, to support your family. Hell no.

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      “I was just doing my job” didn’t work at Nuremberg, and it shouldn’t work here. That’s now how committing crimes against humanity works.

      Every single person working at these places (or involved in the trafficking of people to foreign prisons) needs to be held to account, just like they did with the Nazis.

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      This is sad. It sucks. You want to say that violence isn’t the answer, but it’s easy to see how people hit their breaking point. Schutzstaffel agents kidnapping people is horrible. Oświęcim is poor. The people who work in that transient worker camp are likely just happy to have a job with benefits that feeds their families.

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      Judging by your downvotes, it looks like many people here neither know nor care that there is a world of difference between Border Patrol and ICE.

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        They serve different strategic functions but they are of very similar ideation. That being racist cruelty, and keeping America white.

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        People down voted because they said the people working at these facilities are “just doing their job”.

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          I agree, probably some people did downvote because of the “just working” remark. It also appears that many downvotes are an emotional reaction to feeling empathy for anyone associated with ICE. The problem here is twofold:

          1. The McAllen station isn’t ICE, and commenters here don’t seem to understand - or won’t stop feeling outrage long enough to learn - that the objectives, the methods, and the general principles between ICE and Border Patrol are vastly different. It’s like insisting that Grand Canyon and Everglades are identical because they’re both governed under the national parks system.

          2. Seeing the fediverse slide into Reddit hive mind is cringey. People here used to be more open to respectful discussion. A mention of potential humanity in a reviled federal department wouldn’t have been brigaded. On that note, I appreciate your response.

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            The McAllen station isn’t ICE,

            It is a distinction without a difference at this point.

            It’s like insisting that Grand Canyon and Everglades are identical because they’re both governed under the national parks system.

            No. It’s like insisting that the SA were just as bad as the SS, even though they’re not identical.

            I don’t see this as hive mind, I see it as people rightfully being overwhelmingly against the outright fascist thuggery happening in their own country.

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          No. I said this is a very poor area and many people are just trying to survive. Many are likely happy to have any job that allows then to support their families. People think it’s only white Republicans doing these jobs. The Rio grande valley is like 85% Latino. As someone else mentioned, border patrol and ice are not the same.

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            As someone else mentioned, border patrol and ice are not the same.

            Waffen-SS and Gestapo are not the same

            That is how you sound.

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    For anyone else curious about the relationship to ICE, here is what I found on Wikipedia, with each → pointing to a parent agency:

    US Border Patrol → US Customs and Border Protection → US Department of Homeland Security

    US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) → US Department of Homeland Security