"What we're doing is a reaction to a problematic regime, said Dominick Skinner, the Netherlands-based Irish national behind the website ICE List, of its mission to remove the anonymity that many of the armed federal agents operate under while deployed to US cities. Judge denies Minnesota's request to end ICE surge in Minneapolis The roots of the website trace back to June, when Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, warned that Americans who identified ICE agents publicly would face arrest."
"I reposted that and said, well, we're not in the US, so send them to us,' said Skinner, 31. By the evening I had private investigators messaging me, and by the next week we had a framework of how to work. The site currently operates as a sort of crowdsourced wiki, drawing on a pool of about 500 volunteers to comb through tips from the public."
ICE List originated as a social-media response and became a Europe-based project aiming to expose ICE agents who operate anonymously in US cities. The site publishes names, positions and sometimes photos of agents while intentionally excluding home addresses and phone numbers. The platform functions as a crowdsourced wiki supported by about 500 volunteers, with hundreds more expressing interest. The initiative traces to warnings that identifying ICE agents publicly could lead to arrest and to increasing use of balaclavas, masks and absent name tags among armed federal officers, which obscures agency affiliation.
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