Overview
- Paxton said the effort follows the Sept. 10 killing of Charlie Kirk and recent attacks on ICE facilities in Alvarado and Dallas.
- The Dallas shooting left two detainees dead and one injured, with reports noting anti-ICE messaging on the shooter’s bullet casings.
- Paxton said the initiative builds on President Donald Trump’s Sept. 22 executive order designating Antifa a domestic terrorist organization.
- The attorney general provided no details on which organizations are under investigation or how the infiltrations will be conducted.
- In his announcement, Paxton used charged rhetoric, labeling “transgenderism” and Antifa as corrupted ideologies linked to political violence.