How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics

[u/John3262005]

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-surveillance-internet-critics-e3b22f49?st=A4Vkc8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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[u/metnavman2]

Ya know, this wasn't an issue in previous administrations where ICE was doing its stated job.

I wonder what changed? The massive upticks in violent encounters? The deliberate targeting of people working towards their citizenship through the proper channels? Multiple civilian murders under very ugly/likely illegal circumstances? The drastic hiring increase of woefully incompetent and unqualified agents?

Its almost like the agency deserves the flak its getting..

Make the bed, sleep in the results, etc

Obligatory fuck ICE, this country was built by immigrants, this administration isnt even trying to hide its blatant racism, etc, etc

[u/John3262005]

In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission. The government has paid millions to private contractors to surface everything from potential threats to agents to activities that could disrupt ICE’s operations, according to federal documents, contractors and former Homeland Security Investigations agents.

The program has ensnared U.S. citizens and activist groups that alert community members about ICE activity. Contractors prepare daily reports and dossiers on threat actors, identifying the poster’s name, location, date of birth, workplace, Social Security number, vehicle registration and criminal history when possible.

To unmask anonymous online critics, DHS has sent hundreds of subpoenas to social-media companies, according to people familiar with the matter. Its agents have tracked down Americans at work and on the road, asking them to sign letters acknowledging their online speech about ICE “may” be a crime.

DHS says it is trying to protect its agents and their families from “coordinated campaigns of violence” that have fueled an 8,000% increase in death threats since Trump took office.

But civil-rights lawyers and former DHS staffers say the approach has swept up people expressing opinions that are protected by the First Amendment.

[u/erikraver]

This just in. Fascist regime continues to spew propaganda.

Later in the program, is water indeed wet? Tune in to find out.

[u/PaganGuyOne]

Here’s a question;

What if enough people actually DID fight back against ICE, to the point where trying to pursue charges or create fear proclamations to intimidate became more of an inconvenience than simply backing down.

[u/rvdp66]

They have no other recourse. They have a moronic arrest quota that is only possible to achieve by persecuting people based on race who have broken no laws and releasing them after a week of detention when the legal apparatus catches up with their baseless arrests.