Statement by RGVWP on shootings against federal facilities in Texas
“The struggle against workplace raids and for amnesty will be won not by rogue gunfire—but by the united, organized political action of the working class.“
The following statement was issued by the organizing committee of the Rio Grande Valley Workers Party for publication, 11 July 2025, 12:00 p.m.
The path to winning amnesty for undocumented workers is not through the barrel of a gun—but through collective, organized, disciplined and political working-class struggle.
This week, coordinated armed attacks were carried out against federal immigration facilities in McAllen and Alvarado, Texas. In McAllen, 27-year-old Ryan Louis Mosqueda opened fire on a U.S. Border Patrol annex, engaging in a prolonged gun battle that left one officer injured. In Alvarado, a group in tactical gear attacked an ICE detention facility, deploying fireworks as a diversion before opening fire.
These incidents, marked by cryptic graffiti and vague slogans, follow months of uprisings sparked by intensified immigration raids under the Trump administration—including mass actions and protests here in the Rio Grande Valley. But the legitimate protests often devolved into violent riots between ultra-left elements and police as well as bystanders. These violent actions, whether coordinated or copycat, represent a dangerous deviation from the real struggles working people have to confront.
The RGV Workers Party condemns this adventurism which plays directly into the hands of those who want to crush genuine working-class movements. The government can and likely will use these events as a pretext to crack down on union organizing, migrant justice campaigns, and anti-deportation networks who are doing the real political work and organizing on the ground in a disciplined fashion.
Instead of engaging in isolated and self-defeating acts of violence, workers must build democratic and disciplined campaigns to defend our working-class brothers and sisters. We call on all unions and worker organizations to take up the fight for amnesty for all working people living in the U.S., and to continue standing with deported union members like Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, to unite the labor movement!
The struggle against workplace raids and for amnesty will be won not by rogue gunfire—but by the united, organized action of the working class.