This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

As President Donald Trump has worked to secure America's borders and remove from the United States those inside its borders illegally, especially criminal illegal aliens, the attacks on those officers enforcing those laws, in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, have exploded.

By thousands of threats and attacks in recent months.

Now the federal government has revealed that two brothers allegedly plotting an attack that was to have killed ICE officers have been arrested.

And one of them was employed as an assistant principal at a high school.

According to an announcement from the Department of Homeland Security, arrested were John Wilson Bennett and Mark Booth Bennett, both American citizens.

They allegedly were "planning to carry out attacks against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents."

The case developed when a Virginia police officer overheard the brothers "discussing plans to 'kill police officers and ICE agents,'" DHS confirmed.

Mark Bennett was also overheard saying he was planning to meet with likeminded individuals in Las Vegas, Nev., to purchased firearms with explosive rounds to carry out the attacks, DHS revealed.
The investigation was launched by the DHS and Virginia Beach police just days ago.

It was on Nov. 19 that Mark Bennett was arrested at the Norfolk International Airport where he was scheduled to depart on a flight to Charlotte, North Carolina, en route to Las Vegas, authorities said.

That same day John Bennett was arrested in Virginia Beach, where he has served as the assistant principal of Kempsville High since 2009, they confirmed.

"It's chilling that a human being, much less a child educator, would plot to ambush and kill ICE law enforcement officers—offering such specifics as to getting a high caliber rifle that would pierce the law enforcements' bullet proof vests. Thanks to Homeland Security Investigations and our partners, these men are behind bars," said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.

"Our officers are facing a more than 1,150% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats while they risk their lives every single day to remove the worst of the worst including murderers, rapists, pedophiles, terrorists, and gang members. From bounties placed on their heads for their murders, threats to their families, stalking, and doxxing online, our officers are experiencing an unprecedented level of violence and threats against them and their families."

Pending charges against the two include conspiracy to commit malicious wounding.