"Officers and senior Trump administration officials have repeatedly suggested that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is building a 'domestic terrorists' database comprising information on US citizens protesting ICE's actions in recent weeks,"
"If such a database exists, it would constitute a grave and unacceptable constitutional violation. I urge you to immediately confirm or deny the existence of such a database, and if it exists, immediately shut it down and delete it."
"One thing I'm pushing for right now, Laura, we're going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding, and assault, we're going to make them famous. We're going to put their face on TV. We're going to let their employers, and their neighborhoods, and their schools know who these people are."
Senator Edward J. Markey requested that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirm or deny whether the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is compiling a 'domestic terrorists' database cataloging U.S. citizens who protest ICE actions. The practice would be characterized as a grave constitutional violation and a shocking First Amendment abuse of power comparable to tactics used by authoritarian governments. Statements from DHS officials and administration figures describe efforts to monitor, catalog, and intimidate peaceful protesters and to publicize protesters' identities to employers, neighborhoods, and schools. Immediate confirmation, cessation, and deletion were demanded if such a database exists.
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