An anonymous letter sent to the Sonoma County Republican Party in Northern California calls for an all-out war against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, even suggesting they be sent “home in a body bag” using homemade explosive devices. Nothing says “peaceful activism” quite like a 12-page manifesto with bomb instructions.
The document, titled “A Real American Response to Foreign Terrorist Invasions,” mocks ICE agents for “living out their ‘Call of Duty’ fantasy army roles, only with real assault weapons.” Ironically, it’s the author who seems stuck in a video game mindset. The letter had no name, no return address, and didn’t even reference Sonoma County, according to the local GOP.
On page seven, the letter claims no political party was involved in writing or distributing it, calling it a “private patriotic effort.” That’s one creative definition of patriotism—threatening federal officers while pretending it’s civic duty.
The letter opens by mentioning the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot earlier this month by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. The Department of Homeland Security said Good was attempting to ram her vehicle into an ICE agent when he fired in self-defense. The author of the letter, however, paints ICE as “low-IQ, trigger-happy domestic terrorists,” declaring that “no one is safe now.”
The message accuses ICE of carrying out a “foreign invasion–style war” against unarmed men, women, and children and argues that agents “need to feel real war” themselves. Republican lawmakers who support the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies are sharply criticized for backing the crackdown on illegal immigration.
The tone then escalates into direct calls for violence. The letter says ICE agents and their supporters should become targets, listing methods such as being “IED’d, run over with vehicles, shot at by snipers, [and] sprayed with toxic chemicals.” Apparently, in this warped worldview, disagreement equals a green light for murder.
Several Trump administration figures are mentioned, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller, and Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has been a vocal critic of ICE and the Trump administration’s policies on criminal illegal immigrants.
Pages two and three of the document provide detailed instructions on how to build a chemical improvised explosive device in a section titled, “Carrying the War Back to the ICE Invader Murderers and Protecting Our Personnel.” The letter also includes multiple images of ICE agents performing their duties, along with a note describing a “shrapnel device” meant to cause maximum injury.
The Sonoma County GOP reported the letter to the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department, which has not commented on the case. Earlier this month, DHS reported a 1,300% increase in assaults and an 8,000% increase in death threats against ICE agents.
While extremists hide behind anonymous letters and violent fantasies, law enforcement continues doing the hard work of protecting communities and enforcing the law. In the end, the rule of law—and the people brave enough to uphold it—will always be stronger than threats scribbled on paper.
