# Prosecution for Alleged Threats to ICE Officer’s Husband and Children Can Go Forward

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/prosecution-for-alleged-threats-to-ice-officers-husband-and-children-can-go-forward/
- Published: 2026-11-11T13:01:16+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T13:24:17+00:00
- Original publisher: Reason (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://reason.com/volokh/2026/11/11/prosecution-for-alleged-threats-to-ice-officers-husband-and-children-can-go-forward/
- Topics: Politics

## Key points

- Judge lets the prosecution proceed.
- Jury will decide whether the messages were true threats.
- The alleged messages included a photo of the officer’s children.

## Summary

A federal judge has allowed the prosecution of a woman accused of sending threatening messages about an ICE officer’s children to proceed. The judge said a jury must decide whether the words amounted to a serious threat of violence, which would fall outside First Amendment protection.

The messages were allegedly sent to the officer’s spouse on 20 August 2025 and included a photograph of the couple’s children. The defendant argued that “they will get it too” referred to the children experiencing government policies, not physical harm. The judge distinguished a separate case involving a vague online wish that someone would die, finding this case could not be ruled non-threatening as a matter of law.

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