"Amid this escalating tension, two Rice University freshmen, Jack Vu and Abby Manuel, developed an online platform, called ICE Map, which tracks local reporting about ICE enforcement actions and consolidates verified incidents. The project aims to help users better understand where immigration enforcement activity is happening and how it unfolds in real time. Vu and Manuel's map has drawn greater attention in recent months, including amplification by prominent activists such as Greta Thunberg, who shared the project on Instagram."
"We would go out there every week and we would play games and read books, do hopscotch, and we would teach them American football. In April of 2025, they stopped showing up one Saturday, and we were like, "what is going on?" Someone with the program goes knocking on doors and a resident says that ICE came last weekend, so none of them are leaving their houses. They're not even going to school. So the program stopped because the kids couldn't come anymore."
Federal immigration enforcement by ICE agents expanded after President Trump's second inauguration, with deployments in major cities, sweeping crackdowns, and controversial violent methods that spurred scrutiny and protests after the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Two Rice University freshmen, Jack Vu and Abby Manuel, developed ICE Map to track local reporting about enforcement actions and consolidate verified incidents. The platform aims to help users understand where enforcement activity occurs and how it unfolds in real time. The map gained attention after amplification by activists such as Greta Thunberg and was presented at the 2025 New(s) Knowledge Symposium at MIT.
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