Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the deployment of Department of Justice agents to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities amid a surge in violence.

Several ICE facilities have been attacked over the past few months, the most severe of which involved a gunman firing at a facility on Wednesday, killing a detainee and himself. Bondi announced on Friday night the first major preventive measure by the federal government to prevent further attacks, deploying agents to protect the facilities and devoting more resources to helping ICE’s efforts.