Spurred on by Democrat leadership’s violent rhetoric, threats against ICE officers are only getting worse.

On Monday evening, the Department of Homeland Security released an audio recording of a voicemail message sent to a Minnesota-based ICE agent. The caller made explicit threats including urging the agent to commit suicide and expressing sickening “wishes” for his demise.

In the recording, the individual stated: “I hope your wife dies. I hope your mom and dad die. I hope everything wrong that could go [on] in your life happens.” The caller also wished for the agent to be hit by a transit vehicle and face a divorce after his apparent wife cheated on him due to medical complications.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin attributed the threats to local “sanctuary politicians,” claiming their “repeated vilification” of federal law enforcement has incited “threatening rhetoric and unprecedented violence.” She cited comparisons between ICE and the German Nazi “Gestapo” secret police, as well as 1800s-era slave patrols.

McLaughlin noted that ICE officers have faced an 8,000% increase in death threats and a 1,300% surge in assaults during the second Trump administration despite conducting operations to remove “rapists, terrorists and gang members from American neighborhoods.”

“The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer,” McLaughlin said. “The violence and dehumanization MUST END.”

A Minnesota rioter who stole an ICE agent’s personal identification and used it to leave death threats on his voicemail has already been arrested.