‘Charge Them:’ Alleged Emails From IL Lawmakers Expose ICE Agents’ Vehicle Data, Locations
“Today, community members in the 43rd Ward have reported ICE sightings and suspected enforcement activity at the following locations …”
As I reported on Friday, over the past week, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and even a student group at Loyola University Chicago have proposed the creation of a nationwide database that would track the locations and movements of ICE and CBP agents across the country.
Never mind that providing real-time information to the public about the whereabouts and activities of federal law enforcement officers would place a target on their backs; it would thwart their ability to carry out the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, which is the Democrats’ sole objective.
On Friday, conservative X account Libs of TikTok reported they’d allegedly obtained copies of emails from two Illinois lawmakers, which provide us with a glimpse of how an ICE tracker might work.
In the first, allegedly sent by Illinois State Rep. Margaret Croke (D) to her constituents, the lawmaker supplies the make, model, and license plate numbers of ICE vehicles “seen today.”
Croke, who is currently running to be the state’s comptroller, warned:
Just as we have witnessed in neighborhoods across our city, ICE is conducting their unlawful and undemocratic actions in the 12th House district, including the very block I reside on.
If you see something, record it as that might help protect someone from either being picked up off the street or unnecessarily and forcibly handled by ICE agents. If you know someone who is afraid to leave their home out of fear of ICE, offer to help however you can, such as running an errand on their behalf or picking up their kids from school. And if you know anyone who might be at risk, be sure that they know their rights.
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On Friday, Croke repeated this message on her Facebook page under the caption, “ICE ALERT.”
Because Croke’s dissemination of this information could ultimately get a federal agent killed, the Libs of TikTok post calls on the Department of Homeland Security and ICE to “CHARGE HER.”
BREAKING: Illinois State Rep Margaret Croke (D) just sent out an email doxxing ICE and listed their car details and license plate numbers!
She’s putting a target on agents’ backs and helping illegals evade arrest.
This is absolutely disgraceful.
CHARGE HER. @DHSgov @ICEgov pic.twitter.com/xKRAa4nWeb
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 24, 2025
In the second, Illinois Alderman Timmy Knudsen (D) allegedly warned his “neighbors” that community members had reported ICE sightings and suspected enforcement activity at eight specific locations in the 43rd Ward.
BREAKING: Illinois Alderman Timmy Knudsen (D) sent out an email DOXXING ICE’s live locations to alert illegals on ICE operations.
This helps illegals evade arrest and puts agents in harm’s way.
Charge him. @DHSgov pic.twitter.com/iTEHWuj6oC
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 24, 2025
Below, liberal commentator Brian Krassenstein dutifully passes along a copy of Croke’s email to his followers on X. He also reports that the Department of Homeland Security “has JUST referred” Croke to the Department of Justice “for prosecution for posting this list along with license plates.”
And he encourages people to share this information.
Imagine a network of activists across the country dedicated to collecting and submitting agents’ vehicle details, locations, daily movements, and even personal information about them and their family members into one central database. This is what Democrats are effectively proposing with a “master ICE tracker.”
Democrats intend to mobilize a nationwide army of liberal activists who reject federal immigration enforcement to collaborate on a scheme that would, at a minimum, undermine the ability of federal agents to enforce the law. More likely, it would get some of them killed.
They are playing a dangerous game. This is an organized attempt to obstruct the rule of law. And, judging from the responses to these emails, I think most sane Americans would agree.
Arrest her.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) October 24, 2025
It’s a Federal crime to put the lives of federal agents at risk. We need to see all of these people prosecuted and arrested. If any federal officer are killed or injured due to their negligent actions they should be charged accordingly.
— Andrea🔥 (@SemperFi0101) October 25, 2025
🇺🇸🇺🇸 THE REAL STORY pic.twitter.com/PmHueuMVKa
— Jericho 2 Kings (@jericho_kings) October 24, 2025
This is textbook ‘aiding & abetting’.
At what point do we consider the Democrats accomplices? This is getting ridiculous.
People are tired of seeing ZERO accountability.
— The Conservative Alternative (@OldeWorldOrder) October 24, 2025
— SonofLiberty357 (@SonofLiberty357) October 24, 2025
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Definitely charge them. A**holes.
How about releasing her address to illegal aliens with criminal arrest warrants for rape and murder?
How about releasing the names, addresses, vehicle make, model and license plate number of all Democrat politicians that promote the doxing of federal agents?
Let’s get real. In the best of times under our current political dispensation those who are in office have more than a passing immunity from prosecution for bloody near everything. Especially those of a Leftist persuasion, however it is extended to those not overtly Leftist so as to be held over their heads as a possibility if they press for Leftists to be subject to the law as regular citizens are. In those best of times for those in power, you cannot find prosecutors to take up cases involving the Nomenklatura, nor non- carefully selected juries if it goes to trial, or judges to rule as they would if the case involves the proles.
These are not the best of times. The current administration is making the first tentative moves to charge those who are normally immune from prosecution with some of the crimes they have committed. And we are approaching civil disorder and the breakdown of our social contract over it. Hard times are coming and the rule of law is becoming more the exception than the rule.
Subotai Bahadur
“…the rule of law is becoming more the exception than the rule.”
Even in the little things. I’ve seen more people blatantly run stop signs and red lights in the last year than in my previous 55 years of driving. Add routine rudeness and sense of entitlement…
The ‘shopping cart’ test is real. Same for folks illegally parking in handicapped spaces. Easy ways to ID the broken windows problems on a cultural/social level in a location through personal observation.
Will the DOJ wait until an ICE Agents family is slaughtered in their doxed home before taking action?
Arrest them. Overcharge them.
The process is the punishment.
Their rules.
At what point do we resort to vigilante justice if our elected officials and their non-official allies will not ensure public safety?
i do believe that most jurisdictions allow the use of force to prevent harm to another or property
Upholding and enforcing the law is not only the right of every citizen, it’s every citizen’s obligation when the government fails in its responsibilities.
Rule No. 7 of Sir Robert Peel’s (“the Father of Modern Policing”) “Principles of Policing”:
“To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.”
It doesn’t really get interesting until the sequel, in which Peel’s “neighborhood watch” service slowly morphs into highly-trained, paramilitary SWAT teams that get tasked with performing “welfare checks” in which they follow their training admirably and kill the resident.
Neo-Confe(D)erate acts.
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You say you want an Insurrection?
They will. Pay later if a Federal agent gets seriously injured or killed.
Maybe we need some new laws. Or maybe they can already be charged with conspiracy to obstruct federal law enforcement or something. If it takes acts of congress to do it, that would be fine. I’d be in favor of them doing it without even reopening the government.
I think it would take a constitutional amendment. If you think not, please tell me which of the established exceptions to the freedom of speech this falls under.
Scooter Libby was prosecuted for giving the name of a CIA agent,..was that free speech?
No, he wasn’t. He was prosecuted for making a false statement to the FBI — according to the agents’ notes that they wrote later from memory, without any way for him to verify what he actually told them.
It was a CIA setup, intended to trap Cheney, but the FBI knew from the very beginning that it was Colin Powell’s protege who spoke to Novak, and they never charged him with anything because he didn’t break any laws.
Roust them out of bed at 3am and scare the bejesus out of them. Search their home forcefully turning over everything. Take their electronic computers for analysis. Charge them. If you can’t convict so be it. The process and the drain on finances is almost punishment enough.
These assholes think they’re immune from consequences and are happy play acting their little conspiracies. It’s time to teach them about reality.
I suspect this approach is eventually coming if less vigorous methods don’t work to deter this crap. I’d personally like to avoid the necessity of it but if push comes to shove and the knuckleheads won’t stop then so be it. Unfortunately that step will cause more ‘resistance’ which will require more kinetic actions in response. IMO it will spin into a situation of either walking away or basically jailing the wokiesta d/prog nuts in blue State legislatures and the same for nutty Mayors and City councils in blue enclaves. That’s the dilemma; either allow a new nullification crisis to go unchallenged or dig in for conflict.
Don’t forget to scream obscenities at the family and shoot their pets.
“ Take their electronic computers for analysis.”
All the better reason to hang on to that Bletchley computer.
Corrupt democrat says, “If you know someone who is afraid to leave their home out of fear of ICE, offer to help however you can, such as running an errand on their behalf or picking up their kids from school.”
https://ilga.gov/Legislation/ILCS/Acts?ChapterID=53&ChapterNumber=720
(720 ILCS 5/31-5) (from Ch. 38, par. 31-5)
Sec. 31-5. Concealing or aiding a fugitive.
(a) Every person not standing in the relation of husband, wife, parent, child, brother or sister to the offender, who, with intent to prevent the apprehension of the offender, conceals his knowledge that an offense has been committed or harbors, aids or conceals the offender, commits a Class 4 felony.
(Source: P.A. 97-741, eff. 1-1-13.)
I believe a class 4 felony ion Illinois can result in 1 to 3 years in prison.
Charge them with what? Could those who think this is illegal please inform us which of the known and established list of exceptions to the freedom of speech applies here? As the linked article shows, in 2010 the Supreme Court said, 8-1, that the list of exceptions is closed and no new ones are ever likely to be discovered. So which of them covers this?
Charge them under 8 USC s1342, harboring illegal aliens, and btw, if doing so results in the death of any person, the offender qualifies for the federal death penalty as provided in 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(B)(iv)
They’re not harboring anyone. They’re just publishing information, which is protected speech unless it falls into one of the very short list of exceptions. Which one do you think covers this?
Milhouse, consider the fine line between protected speech and aiding/abetting a criminal act. There’s a gray zone there to be sure, but you DO see that tipping off a criminal (e.g., an illegal alien) that federal enforcement is nearby and coming their way crosses the line, correct? Why would that particular act be considered protected?
Even directly informing a fugitive that the police are coming is probably not a crime. But they’re not even doing that. They’re just collecting and publishing information. What other people do with the information is none of their concern. As such it would seem to be protected, no different from a newspaper that discovers information that would useful to the enemy, and decides that it’s in the public interest to publish it anyway.
Perhaps if you could prove that their intent was for the information to be put to criminal use you might try to squeeze it in under the “speech integral to criminal conduct” exception, but it’s impossible to prove that. You certainly won’t catch them admitting it..
As a thought experiment and not for charging a criminal act but only for registration purposes …bring in a modified ‘Subversive Activities’ registration requirement under an updated Internal Security Act. The registration was struck down b/c mere membership in the Communist Party was itself a criminal act and so the requirement to register violated 5A. By eliminating the criminal penalty for membership in ‘subversive org/entities’ whether formal or informal the direct 5A argument is eliminated.
Would be entertaining to see anti 2A politicians and others who champion firearms registration and creation of firearm ownership ‘lists’ via permits argue that the 1A is somehow immune from similar registration requirements that they have pushed for decades.
Seems pretty clear to me that either incitement (actively telling people where to find federal agent in an attempt to incite riots or attacks on federal agents) or speech integral to criminal acts (the aforementioned attacks and conspiracy to commit such) fits the bill for an exception to the 1st Amendment.
What am I missing?
They’re clearly not inciting anything. They’re not even advocating any crime, let alone whipping people up into a frenzy and deliberately sending them out to commit one immediately, which is the definition of incitement.
Speech integral is a big stretch; they’re just publishing information, all of which was gathered by the public, and is therefore by definition publicly available. What people do with that information is those people’s responsibility, not the publishers’.
They are aiding/abetting a criminal act — by alerting a criminal that Federal law enforcement is nearby and coming their way, they are helping the criminals escape Federal custody.
That’s the WHOLE point of this, after all — to help the illegal aliens remain free. There’s no other reason to do this. This is NOT idle “publishing information”; there is a clear intent to aid criminals so as to evade arrest.
Avoiding arrest is not a criminal act. There’s no law that says if you know the police are looking for you you must turn yourself in.
But even if it were, they will never admit that that’s the point of this. They say the reason is for public information, so people can come out and protest. And you can’t prove otherwise.
Avoiding arrest is 100% a criminal act. In Pennsylvania we have Resisting Arrest for active or passive resistance, Evading Arrest or Detention on Foot for running from the police, Flight to Avoid Apprehension for fleeing or hiding with a warrant, Fleeing and Eluding for fleeing the police in a car, and Escape as a general catch all for leaving when the police don’t want you to with grading from escaping prison or jail all the way down to a traffic stop or investigatory detention.
Your Pennsylvania law (only enacted three years ago, and untested in court) is irrelevant. I can’t find a federal law about it, other than 18 USC 1073, which only involves moving in interstate or international commerce.
But in general, in states that have such an offense, it only triggers after a policeman has seen you and unmistakably ordered you to stop. Without that you’re not fleeing, you’re simply avoiding. A person has a fundamental right to refuse to engage with law enforcement, especially by simply not being where they are.
And laws against concealing or harboring a fugitive are not triggered until you know the person has an arrest warrant out on them. Without that they’re not a fugitive.
It isn’t about the First Amendment, Democrat. However much you people try to attach it.
(720 ILCS 5/31-5) (from Ch. 38, par. 31-5)
Sec. 31-5. Concealing or aiding a fugitive.
(a) Every person not standing in the relation of husband, wife, parent, child, brother or sister to the offender, who, with intent to prevent the apprehension of the offender, conceals his knowledge that an offense has been committed or harbors, aids or conceals the offender, commits a Class 4 felony.
(Source: P.A. 97-741, eff. 1-1-13.)
Go back to Hell, you evil demon.
1. That’s an Illinois law. Illegal aliens are not “offenders”, even under federal law, and certainly not under Illinois law. And federal authorities can’t enforce state laws.
2. Nothing in that law covers publishing information.
3. Even if it did, publishing information is protected speech, and so NO LAW CAN EVER BAN IT. Not even a federal law, let alone a state law.
If Democrats thinking doxxing is fine, then they’ll be willing to accept being doxxed themselves, and with the public tracking and reporting on their movements, and that of their wives, kids etc right? It’s relevant to voters after all!
Yes. Sauce for the gander.
Though no one’s proposing to report the movements of ICE’s family members. All these tracker databases are supposedly only for official ICE vehicles, and for locations of official actions, and descriptions of agents as they work.
Sure, but ICE agents are individual actors. Politician’s family decisions are relevant. Do they claim public education is better than private? What school do their children attend? Do they claim to support equality, or equity etc, but demand privileged treatment for themselves, or their children? Their alleged policy positions can be tested by assessing how they’re applied to family.
I’m not suggesting 24/7 doxxing of family, but laying out all the data would be appropriate based on Democrat support for doxxing.
Oh, of course those are all completely legit. You said “public tracking and reporting on their movements, and that of their wives, kids etc”. That would go beyond what they want to do to ICE officers. But what you’re now proposing is straight-out first amendment activity, to which surely no one can object, right? Especially not Democrats who are promoting these trackers.
Why would the tracking of Dem pols have to be a perfect analog of an attempt to track ICE agents? Just because ICE agents’ families and children aren’t being tracked is not a good reason to not track the families and children of Dem pols. After all, nobody is suggesting anything bad happen to them, right? The purpose isn’t to hunt them down and hurt them, right? So it must be OK and the Dems should be OK with it, right? If it’s all completely innocuous it’s legal, right? Or is it that doing such tracking would, by itself, create stress, anxiety, and concern for the lives and safety of their spouses and children, and therefore it is a form of intimidation even it it’s not intended to be so, and would be illegal? Cuz it it’s not illegal, then there’s no reason to not do it, right?
Family members’ locations, whether those of ICE agents or of Dem politicians, could be argued to not be a matter of public concern.
But my point is not that it would be illegal, but that it could not be justified by the Dems’ own actions. Tracking them would clearly be justified, since it’s what they’re proposing to do. Tracking their families, legal or not, would be going beyond what they’re proposing, so it would no longer be simply a matter of what’s sauce for the goose being sauce for the gander.
“What is good for the goose……..” Perhaps tracking the trackers would be an appropriate reaction. Where the trackers are, who their friends are, family members, license plate numbers, addresses, etc etc. I recall the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention where police wielding batons ruled the day. Unfortunately until ICE (and police in general) grow some stones they will continue to be disrespected.
Would they do this with any other federal law enforcement? FBI, DEA? If not, what is the difference between those LEOs enforcing duly passed laws and ICE?
Right now, they have the foolish idea that ICE agents’ actions are, at least in some respects, outside the law (e.g., making arrests without warrant, calling warrants from immigration courts “not legal,” and so forth). More than likely, their train of thought was probably 1.) disrupt ICE; and then 2.) figure out a rationale to support #1.
Warrants from immigration “courts” are not legal warrants for fourth amendment purposes; agents can’t use them to enter property over the owner’s objection. But these people seem to think that they can’t even use them to arrest people in a public area, and that’s not the case.
The truth is that they don’t care about the law. They hate the USA and all its laws.
You strike me as one of those Rand Paul/Thomas Massie types — everybody else is wrong, and only you have the truth. You acknowledge that the people engaging in these acts hate the USA and all its laws but you insist that their clear incitement/abetting of criminals is somehow protected.
Of course they hate the USA and all its laws. Do you deny that they have every right to do so?! If the first amendment doesn’t protect that then it doesn’t protect anything!
They are not inciting anything. To claim they are is an outright lie. Nor are they abetting anything. They’re simply publishing information, for anyone who likes to do with as he pleases.
If you think this is not protected, explain how.
They probably would. They’re in open opposition to the US government and everything it does.
This was part of an email sent by mt assembly person:
“Alameda County Immigration Legal and Education Partnership (ACILEP) is a collaborative program dedicated to protecting and empowering undocumented communities across Alameda County. They provide rapid response, legal services, and community education to ensure that undocumented individuals and their families have access to justice, dignity, and the resources they need to thrive.
If you are in Alameda County and witness Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in action, suspect ICE activity in progress, or if you or someone you know is detained by ICE, please contact the Hotline at (510) 241-4011 during the operating hours of 6 a.m. – 6 p.m. Priority will be given to calls related to ICE arrests.
Additional Local, Regional, State and National Immigration Resources can be found on my website.
Yours in Service,
Assemblymember Bonta signature
Mia Bonta
Assemblymember, 18th District”
About all I could do is try to alert San Francisco ICE in case they weren’t aware, and hope they stay safe,
Maybe every America First patriot in Alameda County could call (510) 241-4011 and ask if their refrigerator is running etc.
Nah. Call them and report suspicious ICE activity around enterprises generally known to hire or harbor illegals Three or four calls each morning, within one or two adjacent precincts but otherwise as geographically distributed as possible. Use burners, buy some for your right-thinking neighbors.
The fat Illinois governor Pritzker has F-you money, as do his backers the Soroses et al. Perhaps they would like another January 6-like event, for propaganda purposes.
Obstruction of justice is a felony and you don’t need a second actor to complete the crime like you do for a conspiracy; the mere publication of the information is sufficient.
Indict a few of them (including former mayor Beetlejuice) and I suspect their ardor for headlines will evaporate.
The mere publication of information is protected speech, unless you can fit it under one of the known exceptions to that freedom.
If only these people would put their network to good use, like noting people and vehicles used in crimes. They obviously have the ability to pay attention and something like that would go a long way to reducing the crime rate.
Isn’t it illegal to resist or impeded federal law enforcement activities? And coordinating these illegal actions seems like conspiracy to me. But I’m not an attorney, nor have I ever played one on tv.
To resist or impede is absolutely a crime, and anyone who does it should be arrested. But merely publishing information is not that. Nor could you possibly prove that it is intended to be used for such purposes. They don’t admit that. They don’t admit that the violence is even happening. They claim we’re making it all up. So how could you prove they intend their information to be used for this “fictional” violence?
All the Democrat weasels, all with their brand new ICE Blocker apps.
I guess when Kammie cratered the election, all those Biden CPB-One app developers had to find work somewhere.
They didn’t have the carer flexibility of the old Obamacare website developers, who just migrated to PornHub.