""It's not illegal to record," the woman filming the ICE agents says after the agent points his phone at her. "Exactly, that's what we're doing," another officer says. "Why are you taking my information down?" the woman behind the camera asks. The officer responds: "because we have a nice little database, and now you're considered domestic terrorists." "For video taping you? Are you crazy?" the woman shoots back before the clip ends."
"🚨 HOLY SMOKES: ICE agents in Maine just photographed a civilian's face and name and said they're putting it in a database.When the woman asked why, the agent's response was basically: "Now you're considered a domestic terrorist."This is intimidation. Not law enforcement. pic.twitter.com/68dEiVd2wa- Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) January 23, 2026 Whether the two were actually registered in an ICE database is unclear. But the agency is definitely using facial identification tech in at least some ways."
A video shows a masked ICE agent scanning a couple's faces with his phone while officers speak to the civilians. An officer tells the woman filming that they have a database and states the civilians are considered "domestic terrorists" for recording. Whether the two were actually entered into an ICE database is unclear. ICE has used facial identification technology to check suspects' citizenship status, prompting warnings about potential constitutional and civil liberties consequences. A separate legal filing alleges an ICE agent identified a woman by name and warned that ICE had registered her.
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