Anti ICE and Antifa thugs stalk, attack, harass, and dox ICE agents during the commission of their law enforcement. Those crimes have consequences.
A payments director at the Minneapolis-based retail giant Target Corp. said her fast-track credentials for airport security were revoked following an interaction with a federal border patrol agent who claimed he had facial recognition and was recording with a “body cam.”
Nicole Cleland, a 56-year-old from suburban Minneapolis, said in a court declaration that she was participating with a neighborhood group on Jan. 10 that tracked federal agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, two agencies under the Department of Homeland Security that are carrying out President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
That morning, Cleland said she followed an agent’s white Dodge Ram into the parking lot of a Mexican supermarket. She described the agent, dressed in camouflage, as a “border patrol agent.”
“The agent addressed me by my name and informed me that they had ‘facial recognition’ and that his body cam was recording,” Cleland said, adding that the agent said she was impeding the law enforcement officers’ work. “He indicated he was giving me a verbal warning and if I was found to be impeding again, I would be arrested,” she said. Her declaration is included in a lawsuit filed in Minnesota state court in December by residents alleging DHS and some of its top officials and agents violated their First Amendment rights.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security didn’t respond to requests for comment. Cleland couldn’t be reached for comment. Target declined to comment on the matter.
……DHS is taking measures to track US citizens and monitor their work. Those include pressuring technology giants Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google to remove apps that track ICE agents, and making requests of Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms Inc., to unmask accounts that have posted online about immigration raids….
In addition, DHS has amassed a stockpile of artificial intelligence-based surveillance tools, according to agency records, which includes a database of AI-enabled tools it’s using. For instance, there are 24 different tools that use facial recognition, developed by vendors or in-house.
Border patrol agents are using a tool from Clearview AI Inc. to generate “visually similar photos of individuals,” “which serve as preliminary leads for analysts to initiate further investigation.” “The intended purpose of this facial recognition technology is to assist USBP agents in addressing the challenges of identifying individuals who may be linked to national security threats or transnational criminal organizations,” according to DHS records.
Another vendor, Penlink, states on its website that it helps law enforcement pinpoint targets’ positions with “extreme accuracy” by using location information from Google, Snapchat and Facebook and combining that with data from cellular towers. Custom and Border Protection are also using NexusXplore, a tool to “solve the problem of efficiently identifying potential threats and admissibility concerns by quickly analyzing vast amounts of open-source and social media data for security risks to enhance US national security,” according to DHS. The tool was trained on data “collected from several publicly available, social media and media outlet sites,” according to the records.
ICE is arresting murderers, violent child rapists, and gang members, along with the foreign nationals who are getting deported for being in the country illegally. They were working to arrest convicted pedophiles and murderers while Renee Good tried to run over one of the officers.
They’re also arresting Somali nationals who commit murder, billions of dollars in welfare fraud, and fund the Al-Shabaab terrorist group.
The anti-ICE mob isn’t interested in the facts. They are crisis actors for the Left. Violence and chaos are the methods.
Too bad they aren’t being treated like the J6 protesters.