I have to agree here. Counter-protesting in this manner just plays into the hands of the lefties.
In this point I'll disagree a bit.
What larger picture? Has anyone even read the article? Non-violent protest (per police), zero damage, three people arrested for blocking traffic.
The purpose of protesting at someone's home - peaceful or not - is to send the message to that person or to anyone else in that organization that "we know where you live." The purpose is to intimidate anyone associated with ICE and to discourage anyone from associating with them in the future. That's a dangerous line to cross.
IMO this kind of escalation also shows how desperate the anti-ICE folks are. They know they are losing public sympathy so they have switched from trying to use sympathy to get people on their side and now it's just outright intimidation: "Don't associate with ICE or we'll do this to you!"