Overview
- Rep. Robert Garcia announced the Oversight Committee will host a centralized tracker to collect community-submitted, verifiable reports of ICE activity, with launch targeted in the next couple of weeks.
- The Department of Homeland Security said ICE-tracking tools endanger officers and their families and warned that anyone who obstructs or assaults law enforcement will face consequences.
- Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joined Garcia in unveiling the plan, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal is leading a related Senate inquiry into ICE detentions.
- Attorney General Pam Bondi criticized the initiative and reiterated that the Justice Department will prosecute violence against federal agents.
- Platform actions frame the debate after reports that a Dallas attacker used an ICE-tracking app; Apple removed the ICEBlock app at DOJ’s request and Facebook took down a Chicago group tracking ICE activity.