Feds seek suspect in attempted firebomb attack on ICE facility

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Officials released a photo and details on Thursday about a suspected arson attempt on an Atlanta immigration facility in the latest of several such incidents this year.

A man threw a bottle that served as “an improvised incendiary device” at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on Tuesday night, but it was caught on a fence, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. At least three other current or proposed immigration facilities have been targets of similar fire attacks this year amid outrage over President Donald Trump’s mass deportations.

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