Tell Congress: Stop ICE’s Online Surveillance Dragnet

ICE is using taxpayer dollars to monitor, identify, and intimidate people for criticizing immigration enforcement online.

A new Wall Street Journal investigation reveals that ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet across platforms like Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Private contractors are reportedly scanning posts, preparing daily reports, and compiling dossiers that can include people’s names, locations, dates of birth, workplaces, Social Security numbers, vehicle registrations, and criminal histories.

Protesting ICE, sharing information about raids, calling for the agency to be abolished, or demanding accountability for deadly force are protected speech. A government agency should not be allowed to treat dissent like a threat database.

Tell the House Homeland Security Committee: Investigate ICE’s surveillance of online critics and stop taxpayer funds from being used to intimidate people for speaking out.

The reporting shows that DHS has sent subpoenas to social media companies seeking identifying information about users who criticized federal immigration actions. Some people have even been tracked down in person and asked to sign letters warning that their online speech “may” be a crime.

ICE already has enormous power to detain, deport, and separate families. Giving that same agency a secretive surveillance apparatus aimed at critics creates a direct threat to civil liberties, immigrant communities, journalists, activists, and anyone who documents government abuse.

Add your name to our petition to demand Congress investigate ICE’s online surveillance dragnet before more people are targeted for speaking out.

The petition to the House Homeland Security Committee reads:

"Launch a full investigation into ICE’s surveillance of online critics. Hold public hearings, subpoena DHS and contractor records, audit ICE’s surveillance contracts, and stop taxpayer funds from being used to monitor, intimidate, or unmask people for criticizing immigration enforcement."