Suddenly, ICE Tracking Platforms Are All the Rage Among Democrats
She wants to know agents’ “height, weight, hair color, they wear their vests in a particular way … the shoes that they wear, the cars that they’re driving.”
During a Tuesday interview on WTTW-TV’s Chicago Tonight, former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot outlined a proposal to establish a centralized archive containing detailed personal information on every Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent operating in the U.S. She told host Paris Schutz she wants to know the agents’ “height, weight, hair color, they wear their vests in a particular way … even the masks that they wear, the shoes that they wear, the cars that they’re driving.”
Lightfoot continued:
We have a right to compile that information and put together a profile of each of these agents that’s alleged to have committed a crime. This is not about doxxing them or putting them in danger.
It’s [this information] out there, but it’s in different places, and that makes it difficult to aggregate the information. We want to create a portal where what’s happening in real time can be centralized and then put out for the public to view.
Number two, we certainly want to unmask the ICE agents and CBP agents who are committing crimes in our city. Not normal immigration activity — but when we see homicide, attempted homicide, or excessive force being routinely used …
Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants people to dox ICE agents so states can prosecute them:
“Height, weight, hair color…shoes, the car that they’re driving—we have a right to compile that information and put together a profile of each of these agents.”
This is what… pic.twitter.com/4Hl6vb8uzB
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) October 24, 2025
In the video below from Thursday night, Fox News’ Jesse Watters played a clip from Lightfoot’s interview and asked Attorney General Pam Bondi if this plan was legal. Bondi said no, adding that Lightfoot would be receiving a notification from the Justice Department the next day, instructing her to preserve all documents relating to her actions.
@AGPamBondi already has her number https://t.co/cpx8DCVMMQ
— Albert Olsen, Sr. (@OlsenSr1) October 24, 2025
On Tuesday, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) proudly announced that Democrats on the House Oversight Committee will be launching a “master ICE tracker” on their website to monitor the activities of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents throughout the country.
With Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass at his side, Garcia said, “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 all be available in one central place.”
NEW: Democrats are planning to launch a "master" ICE-tracker on their website. pic.twitter.com/aYbtH36kJF
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 22, 2025
As nuts as this sounds, Lightfoot and members of the House Oversight Committee are among a growing number of Democrats pursuing similar efforts. Over the past week alone, New York Attorney General Letitia James, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, and even a student group at Loyola University Chicago have all announced plans to develop apps or websites designed to track the locations and movements of ICE agents across the country.
Except for Lightfoot, whose oath expired when she left office, and the students, the rest of these individuals have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Yet they are actively trying to dox federal agents who are tasked with enforcing U.S. immigration law and implementing the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.
They are crossing a very dangerous line. First, considering that attacks against ICE agents have surged by 1,000% since President Trump took office, these initiatives are likely to get federal agents killed.
Just last month, a sniper targeting federal law enforcement officers opened fire at the ICE facility in Dallas, Texas. Although he was aiming for ICE agents, he wound up killing two detainees before turning his gun on himself. Investigators recovered an unfired bullet inscribed with the words “ANTI-ICE” at the scene.
Mexican cartels have placed bounties on the heads of ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the amounts range from “$2,000 for gathering intelligence or doxxing agents” to “$50,000 for the assassination of high-ranking officials.”
Second, although I’m not a lawyer, does one really need a law degree to recognize that these plans likely violate 18 U.S. Code § 372 (Conspiracy to impede or injure an officer)?
If two or more persons in any State, Territory, Possession, or District conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof, or to induce by like means any officer of the United States to leave the place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt, hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties, each of such persons shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six years, or both.
It’s worth noting that more than three million illegal immigrants were deported during the Obama administration. While President Obama was dubbed the “deporter-in-chief” by his critics, I don’t recall seeing anything remotely resembling the level of resistance we’re witnessing today.
If the Biden administration had not allowed millions of unvetted illegal immigrants to pour into the U.S., we wouldn’t be facing today’s sweeping deportations. And given the unprecedented level of resistance from sanctuary state and city officials, there is no easier, softer way to do this.
As the Issues & Insights editorial board noted in a recent op-ed, “Deportation is a dirty business. It always has been. Always will be.”
But if Democrats go forward with their proposed ICE tracking apps and websites, sooner or later, agents are going to get killed.
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I’m going to say this is the moment in time where America’s war of ideas has been won.
Violence. They have no ideas, only violence.
Watch over the coming year as more and more of the remaining sane Dems become Fettermans.
There are no sane Dems. EVER!
They’ve been stringing up blacks since before this nation was founded, and continued into the 20th Century.
I would like to know how much these Dems would freak out if someone developed a Dem Tracking App. It could list the home address, phone number, and current location of every Dem politician and talking head to include Lightfoot and Carville. It’s time to turn this train around before it gets even more dangerous.
Democrats have declared war on the United States.
“We have a right to compile that information and put together a profile of each of these agents that’s alleged to have committed a crime. This is not about doxxing them or putting them in danger.”
She’s just assembling a Democrat spank bank.
Progressive PornHub.
Lori Lightloafers needs to be careful. IMO, she’s walking close to the line of insurrection and she can’t hide behind being an elected official any longer.
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Information collected to form the basis of prosecutions is useful to AGs and DAs. Someone should ask Ms. Lightfoot how public access to the information serves the purpose of its collection as she alleges. Obviously, this explanation of the purpose of the collection is a very lame smokescreen for the actual purpose of the project – to intimidate federal officials in order to obstruct their LE operations. Maybe this can’t be proved, but the process is the punishment. Put her through it.
Beetlejuice!!!
Beetlejuice!!!
Beetlejuice!!!
You had to say it the 3rd time… 🙄
She’s just going to come into this comments section now. What exactly do we do then?
Downvote for saying it 3 times. Actually, I had no idea the Alien From Chicago was still around
This is insurrection (and a conspiracy to commit insurrection). I’m not a lawyer. I’m not a pretend lawyer. I don’t play one on TV. It doesn’t matter. You don’t get to define the immigration policies of this country unless you’re president (although I suppose the other two branches get some say). You don’t get to actively thwart policies you don’t like. You don’t get to impede or threaten federal agents in the performance of their duties. Want to change things. Try winning an election or two
Arrest everyone actively involved in this insurrection and conspiracy. Try them, Jail them, and throw away the key. Greater penalties for current elected officials who have taken an oath of office and should know better.
Jesus, is that alien still around? The worst mayor in Chicago history until the current mayor in Chicago history which is saying something.
Yes and that’s why she’s scared. She doesn’t want to be deported out of the solar system.
It has to be against a law to undermine law enforcement.
If police were out to make a drug bust, and some politician knew when and gave it out to the drug dealers, that would be fine in their opinion.
“Mexican cartels have placed bounties on the heads of ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.”
Make no mistake, that’s the whole point of these ICE trackers: to aid & abett these foreign terrorists in the US to assassinate LE.
Kaiser’s Maxim remains undefeated.
And when these foreign terrorists eventually assassinate LE using the info collected by all these ICE trackers, these gutless leftists politicos will then run behind plausible deniabilty exclaiming, ‘Shazaam. We denounce political violence, and would never encourage it.’
Put them all in prison, or it’s still just *clown world* where they’ll keep doing it until more people are murdered.
Maybe, but you can’t possibly prove it, and without that it’s protected speech.
Doxxing is not protected speech under the First Amendment, especially when it targets federal agents like those with ICE. While the First Amendment broadly protects free expression, this protection does not extend to speech that constitutes a “true threat,” incites violence, or is an integral part of a crime
You are full of shit.
How about democrat tracking platforms for state militias?
Charge her with soliciting Stalking. There’s no legitimate purpose here.
Of course the leftist media never points out that ICE is enforcing the laws as enacted by Congress and signed into law by previous presidents. If Democrats don’t like such laws, that’s fine, the Constitution provides a method to amend or repeal them. Introduce legislation and work with your colleagues to get it passed. To have elected politicians, especially those serving in Congress, defy the very laws that their own institution is responsible for is absurd, and insurrectiony. And if we had even a decent minority of people who understood this, they would not be able to get away with it.
The DOJ should ask one of the cybersecurity agencies to disrupt all these anti-ICE portals.
I first saw her on camera 20 years ago on the Fox Special-Alien Autopsy.
1860 or 2025 what’s the difference? There is none.
More like the 1832 Nullification crisis but yeah your general point remains valid.
Sorrry, but the only way they learn is with a dose of their medicine……someone should develop an app which would do the same thing to those promoting this….and let a Welcome Wagon group shadow them wherever they go….it’ll stop in a heartbeat (after they make fools of themselves by going to the mics decrying what the right has done).
If they want to treat it like a game .. then .. game on.
Just start reporting ICE as being everywhere.
Pure FAFO
So will these Democrats espousing tracking platforms also support a central publicly accessible source listing in text form at a minimum, possibly with imagery, their private residence(s), their spouse, their children, where they send their children to school, or where their grandchildren go to schools (public v private, rich v average v poor), their net worth, all their social connections, and anything else materially relevant to voters when making decisions about whom to support?
I suspect they’ll scream right to privacy because without double standards ….
If I didn’t spend 60-70 hours every week running my business, I’d write a simple JavaScript bot that could be easily shared and run from any device to spam the daylights out of these systems with randomized, bogus data. Flood their system with junk data and render it useless, and/or have them chasing their tails.
These systems could also be easily used to lure these morons into an ambush for a good old fashioned beat-down.