Seattle Mayor’s ‘Set of Actions’ Against ICE Include Police Surveillance, and Tipping Off ‘Immigrant’ Communities
“Successfully protecting our community from federal agents will require bold leadership by elected officials, close coordination between different government bodies, and extensive community organizing.”
Democrats continue to demonstrate who they really are with the level of resistance we’ve seen from them on the issue of removing criminal illegal immigrants from communities across America to keep law-abiding Americans safe.
We’ve seen it time and again from Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D), whose insistence on keeping illegals protected from arrest and deportation emboldened agitators to become more aggressive in their efforts to thwart ICE and border patrol agents, which led to violent and, in two instances, deadly confrontations.
- Border Patrol-Involved Shooting in Minneapolis Leaves One Dead, Chaos Erupts
- Minneapolis Anti-ICE Protester Reportedly Bites Off Finger Of DHS Agent
- Walz Urges Minnesotans to Protect Illegals, Film ICE ‘Atrocities,’ ‘Resist’ in Deranged Speech
- Minneapolis: ICE Agent Ambushed by Illegal Alien Leads to Another Shooting
In other states, however, Democrats in positions of power are taking things to another level. As Legal Insurrection reported, we saw that just this week, with New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D), who on Wednesday announced the impending launch of a portal for tracking ICE, where Garden State residents can upload videos of people whom they believe to be immigration enforcement agents, presumably for the state to review.
Not to be outdone, Seattle’s new mayor, socialist Katie Wilson, announced a new “set of actions” on Thursday that are designed to, surprise surprise, keep criminal illegals safe from arrest.
JUST IN: Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announces new guidelines for hindering ICE activities and protecting illegals:
– directs police to follow ICE around, film them and share the info with community orgs
– prohibits ICE from using city property
– $4 million taxpayer dollars to… pic.twitter.com/pbPL2A8db9— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 30, 2026
From the news release:
Successfully protecting our community from federal agents will require bold leadership by elected officials, close coordination between different government bodies, and extensive community organizing.
“Whoever you are, and wherever you come from: if Seattle is your home, then this is your city,” said Mayor Katie B. Wilson. “And it’s our responsibility as city leaders to move quickly and get organized so we can keep people safe. That is why I am taking immediate steps today to bar federal agents from using city property for federal civil immigration enforcement activity, update SPD protocols, and support trusted community partners to aid the community response, which is our most powerful tool.”
[…]
Seattle’s response starts with the necessary, basic, and important work of city government. The City will promptly provide all employees updated training on the appropriate way to report and respond to enforcement activity in the current environment. All departments are directed to conduct a privacy review aimed at limiting potential data exposure, including by reviewing data sharing agreements in vendor contracts. Clear signage will be posted designating private spaces on city properties. And we will ensure coordination with other local, regional, and state bodies to ensure the most effective possible response in a potential emergency situation.
In addition, the mayor will take several concrete steps to clarify the role of local law enforcement, provide direct support to immigrant rights organizations, aid community organizing efforts, and forbid ICE from making use of city-owned property. Specifically, the mayor will:
Require the Seattle Police Department to investigate, verify, and document any reports of immigration enforcement activity. If dispatched to a location where apparent immigration enforcement activity is underway, officers will document the activity with in-car and body-worn video, validate the status of apparent federal law enforcement agents through official identification, and secure scenes of potentially unlawful acts to gather evidence for transmittal to prosecutors.
— Mayor Katie B. Wilson (@MayorofSeattle) January 29, 2026
Seattle journalist Jonathan Choe had the following reaction:
So let me get this straight. Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, who wanted to defund the police, now wants to use the police to harass ICE agents in her city?Then on top of that, she wants cops to take photos of federal officers and pass information on to her comrades at these far-left non-profits?
There is no way any self respecting SPD officer would do this.
Either way, it’s time for the Trump administration to swarm Seattle.
NEW: So let me get this straight. Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, who wanted to defund the police, now wants to use the police to harass ICE agents in her city?
Then on top of that, she wants cops to take photos of federal officers and pass information on to her comrades… https://t.co/H9uDXG8yAr— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) January 30, 2026
Others observed that Wilson’s plan was likely to run into some, shall we say, friction:
The Supremacy Clause would like to have a word with the Seattle Mayor. The laws enacted by Congress will be enforced. https://t.co/M7XPodNlZc
— Hunter Pollack (@PollackHunter) January 31, 2026
"Toothless virtue signaling rhetoric like this has already cost two people their lives. The concept of pitting two armed law enforcement agencies against each other is ludicrous, and will not happen. I will not allow SPOG members to be used as political pawns."
– Mike Solan,… pic.twitter.com/EuwZxVI1uw— Seattle Police Officers Guild (@SPOG1952) January 30, 2026
One would think that, given that a jury just found Seattle liable to the tune of $30 million for the shooting death of a teen during the 2020 CHAZ/CHOP encampment debacle, the city would be more keen to protect residents.
BREAKING: the city of Seattle has been found LIABLE for the death of Antonio Mays Jr. in the CHOP zone shooting of 2020. The verdict has awarded his father, Antonio Mays Sr. approx $30 MILLION. @komonews pic.twitter.com/tDlsCpOVAw
— Jeremy Harris (@JeremyHarrisTV) January 29, 2026
Then again, Democrats never learn, so Wilson’s edicts should surprise absolutely no one.
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How can this not be a crime? Tipping off a criminal with information of their arrest to flee?
They’re not tipping off criminals. They’re reporting true information to the general public, which is protected by the first-amendment. If criminals hear the news and take advantage, that’s not the city’s problem.
And it’s not their $30 M, that’s other people’s money, ie taxpayers who they fleece anyway.
Might want to read Title 18 and 8 before you go to jail.
Nothing here can get anyone in jail. Precisely which sections of USC 8 or 18 do you allege are being violated here?
Good lord! Just look at that photo. A malignant mutant- space alien ugly, with a bulbous forehead, hairy upper lip, sneering nose, pallid complexion with a rubbery rictus smile. Of course, two smiling cucks in the background.
Madness is on a wild contagion throughout the land!
Sedition to insurgency in blue America. John C. Calhoun must be looking on in amusement. Can you Blue Confederacy folks come up with your version of ‘Dixie’ minus any cotton?
They should raise the confederate flag since it’s available for use.
The Stars and Bars of the new Confederacy. This time it is not even about run away slaves but hiding illegals. Though the Biden people flying plane loads of illegals into sanctuary cities is human trafficking.
There have been cases I believe of illegals treated as slaves. Human trafficking of young illegal girls comes to mind but I believe there have been other instances.
Maybe wealthy Blue Staters (and others) want to protect a pool of highly exploitable labor?
The marijuana farm they raided would be an example, I think.
You mean this?
That’s quite a flag. First time I have seen it.
FYI, that one is Minnesota’s newest flag (thanks, Timmy!), not Washington’s…
The flag of Northern Somalia.
No, it isn’t. The whole idea is silly, and only serves to discredit the entire opposition to this anti-American conspiracy.
I’m broken record now.
Track her movements on an app for all to see.
Defund Seattle.
Issue a travel warning. In fact the US should issue travel warnings for all states and cities acting as such.
Move federal jobs out of the city.
Surge ICE to Seattle.
Alternatively I’d suggest:
Temporarily closing federal offices/activities from SSA to the post office out of an ‘abundance of caution’ for safety of Federal employees. No TSA, No air traffic controllers. End all joint Federal/Local TF. Reassign all LEO, including US Marshals, to targeted immigration enforcement operations. Obviously any Federal/State collaborative program won’t be able to continue operating b/c the Federal employees can’t conduct audits, supervision or perform their normal functions.
When the security situation and risk levels for ALL Federal employees returns to more normal levels for an extended period,.say 30 days without incident, then normal operations can continue. In the meantime, it sucks about loss of airports (no TSA/ATC) sea ports/private marinas (no Coast Guard and no Customs inspectors) and rail traffic with no Federal safety inspectors. No SSA office to process claims (would be a real shame if an ‘unusual’ computer bug mysteriously wiped out SSA payment processing for Seattle area zip codes requiring everyone to come into the SSA office to fix it while the office was shut down). Probably have to shut down interstate and US HWY traffic into/out of Seattle due to no Dept Transportation employees able to determine if these roads were still safe or had been damaged by ‘resistance’.
TSA in SeaTac cannot get worse.
Front end is just a bunch of Somali’s who tell white people to walk an extra 200 yards because the other line is “faster” …. spoiler. it’s not- and never is… they are just harassing white people.
If one lands from an overseas flight and is going on to another destination, one must pass through TSA. The ones manning that station in Atlanta are almost all ghetto trash that will hassle ANYONE not black.
Our company was in Birmingham, only about 130 miles away. He’d drive to Atlanta and leave from there. That way, when he got back he could just go to his car and be home in two hours rather than suffer the indignity. I called their little games “Hassle the Honkey”.
IMO the bulk of TSA should be disbanded. Keep the ‘air marshals’, the red teams who test security and a tiny HQ staff to plan, write SoP and best practices/standards and provide training. Give the equipment to the local Airport Authorities and put the responsibility on them to perform the function needed and to pay for it themselves via gate fees/ticket price surcharges.
Again, the post office is independent, so not that. And there are some other functions that are specifically required by statute. Everything else, sure.
That sounds an awful lo like interference. Someone needs to be indicted.
Interference with what???
Following police around from a safe distance is not interference. It’s already firmly established law that if you see police activity you have every right to stop and record it, from a safe distance, and there is nothing the police can do about it. How is this different?
Cmon man, you and I both know this is meant to impede the efforts of ICE and CBP. They wouldn’t be doing it if that weren’t the case.
It’s impossible to impede anything from a safe distance. What other people do with the information is not the city’s problem.
Diverting police from their normal functions and have them following and filming ICE is the wrong policy. This will result in more crime and less deterrence. She can make that policy to the cities detriment. If you think Seattle was having a hiring and retention problem – you ain’t seen nothing yet.
“Successfully protecting our community from federal agents” is an insane phrase to open your press release. This woman is going to get people hurt.
Kinda reminds of other Washington – DC back in day when MPD(DC cops) used to warn Mayor Barry that FBI was coming to arrest him.
Mr. Mayor! Stash the crack pipe, and get them hoes off YOUR pipe!
Um… “Mr. Mayor” is a chick.
Not when it was Marion Barry.
Seattle resident here. This is an article from a local blog in the neighborhood I live in, It lists her directives. Reading some of the comments will give you an idea why these fools get elected into office.
https://westseattleblog.com/2026/01/stand-together-seattle-and-4-other-actions-announced-by-mayor-wilson-to-address-increased-federal-immigration-enforcement-activity/
We go to Seattle frequently to visit the grandkids. Downtown is unsafe. Addicts, homeless and general degenerates hanging around. We won’t even go near it. The family lives in West Seattle. Still ultra woke, but they keep the homeless out and no addicts. This commie is getting her full dictator freak on.
“Still ultra woke, but they keep the homeless out and no addicts. This commie is getting her full dictator freak on.”
As I like to say, they are the kind who don’t want to live near their opinions.
I don’t disagree with that thought. I will say that my daughter and all her hi tech woke friends have their kids in Catholic Schools. Make of that what you will.
I live in West Seattle too. There’s plenty of homeless and addicts running around here. Petty crimes are off the charts. They’re planning a city sanctioned tiny house/RV village right down the hill from my place. It’ll be run by LIHI (low income housing institute) an organization that rakes in big $$$ and are probably number one in the homeless grift in the area. The parks and green spaces are littered with trash filled encampments.
“Successfully protecting our community from federal agents….”
Not actually protecting the community, Sweetie, but rather protecting illegals, which by doing so brings ICE agents into the community and thus puts citizens in danger.
Democrats are protecting dependable voters who will never vote for the party working to remove their illegal backsides from America.
If the SPD help the seditious agitators gather intel on federal operations, knowing that the organizations will use the intelligence to obstruct and attack federal agents, won’t they be complicit? Will the officers who do this be also liable for any conspiracy charges that come out of this?
No. First amendment.
“One would think that… the city would be more keen to protect residents.”
Why does anyone on our side even pretend the left might turn rational?
“directs police to follow ICE around, film them and share the info with community orgs”
That there crosses the line from “non-cooperation” into “interference.”
Mister Trump, bring down that insurrection hammer!
No, it stays firmly on the right side of the line. Documenting police activity is not interference. How does everyone not know this? How many times did police have to be hauled into court before they learned that people have an absolute constitutional right to film them, from a safe distance, and there is nothing they can do about it?
Stalking IS a federal crime.
Reconcile that.
Following is not stalking. Stalking is:
“engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to—
(A) fear for his or her safety or the safety of others;
(B) suffer substantial emotional distress.”
Following public officials in the course of their duties is protected by the first amendment, just as recording them is.
Nothing she’s announced violates the supremacy clause, or prevents the laws from being enforced. It will just take a lot more feds than they’ve deployed so far. This is a gilt-edged invitation to the feds to deploy a lot more people, as many as it takes. And not being able to use city property just means the feds will be using the streets a lot more, thus causing traffic problems.
There’s nothing wrong with having police following ICE around and documenting them from a safe distance. So long as they don’t interfere.
A friend wanted me to ask, can we punch liberals in the forehead?
That depends. Are the police watching?
Gotta have something to do when you can’t get a date, I guess.
Someone should post the mayor of seattle pic to one of these anti ice websites and claim she’s an undercover ICE agent.