Assaults on ICE Border Patrol surge

-Source-The Washington Times- Assaults on ICE agents reached a decade high in 2017 and assaults on Border Patrol agents have also surged in recent years according to new government numbers that seem to back up agents claims that illegal immigrants are increasingly looking to fight rather than flee. The new numbers reported by Homeland Securitys inspector general could even be underselling the problem investigators said because the government doesnt do a good job of tracking incidents and agents and officers dont always report them properly. But the report does signal renewed danger particularly on the southwest border where agents say a surge in illegal immigration in recent years generally correlates with growing violence. Prosecutors meanwhile often refuse to bring charges or win cases against the perpetrators the audit found. At the border the most frequent method of attack was projectiles usually large rocks which accounted for half of assaults. But bombs clubs knives guns and even laser pointers to blind agents have all been used.