Attorney General lashed out at Democrats who want to build a master “ICE tracker” website.
Bondi wrote on X:
Shutdown Democrats are already refusing to pay our law enforcement agents. Now, @RepRobertGarcia and @SenBlumenthal are trying to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs.@TheJusticeDepthas ZERO tolerance for violence against law enforcement — we will prosecute any person who physically assaults our agents.
Bondi posted a video of Garcia’s announcement alongside Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. He said:
Uh, the Oversight Committee, I shared this with the mayor over the course of the next couple of weeks, the Oversight Committee will be launching on their website a master ICE tracker where we can, we’re going to be essentially tracking every single instance that we can verify that the community will send, be able to send us information. It’ll be all available in one central place, and you’ll be able to look up that information as it relates to Los Angeles as well.
Garcia is pretty vague. Will it only show where ICE arrests happen? Will it show the location of ICE agents?
Garcia claimed he wants to launch the website due to concerns that ICE agents have targeted American citizens. From The Washington Examiner:
Garcia’s latest efforts to track ICE come partly in response to concerns that federal agents are targeting people for detention and deportation due to their race. Over 7,100 people in the Los Angeles area suspected of being illegal immigrants have been arrested since June, the DHS said this week.Garcia pointed to a ProPublica report released last week that indicated around 170 U.S. citizens have been arrested by the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE.“Why? Because they look like me, because they are of Latino origin, or because they are suspected to not be a U.S. citizen, or because they are suspected of crimes that they have not committed,” the California Democrat said Monday.
Okay, look, I don’t even like everything ICE is doing. It is unacceptable that they’ve arrested American citizens. Additionally, the Constitution applies to everyone in America.
Does that mean the ICE agents should be doxxed and threatened? No.
Earlier this month, the DOJ requested that Apple remove the ICEBlock app, which enabled users to report the locations of ICE agents.
The DOJ shared concerns about the safety of the officers.
Apple removed it due to those concerns.
The DOJ also asked Meta to remove a Facebook group where people could “dox and target” ICE agents in Chicago.
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