Eight people convicted of the attack on an immigration detention center in Texas in July 2025 have been sentenced to very long sentences, ranging from 30 to 100 years in prison. The entire group is presented by the authorities as “an Antifa cell”, a movement designated in September by President Donald Trump as a “terrorist organization”.
During the attack on July 4, the American national holiday, against an immigration police detention center (ICE) near Dallas, a police officer who rushed to the scene was injured in the neck. The eight defendants were convicted in March by a jury in federal court in Fort Worth. The police officer, who recovered, testified at the trial.
100 years in prison for the leader of the “antifa cell”
Benjamin Song, accused of being the author of this shooting and described by prosecutors as the leader of an “antifa cell in North Texas”, was sentenced Tuesday by this court to cumulative sentences of 100 years in prison, notably for attempted murder of a police officer. The other seven were sentenced to 30 to 70 years in prison.
Donald Trump adopted a decree in September officially classifying the “Antifa” movement, which brings together groups claiming to be anti-fascism, as a “terrorist organization”, the day after a ceremony honoring the murdered ultraconservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
The “Antifa” movement, for “anti-fascist”, is more akin to a movement than to an organized group, according to specialists. The term, generally associated with a fringe of the far left, is often used by the right and the far right regarding violence in demonstrations.
