Report: ICE Tracked Anti-Trump Protests in NYC
By The Daily Beast
08 March 19
As anti-Trump sentiment reached a fever pitch last summer, Immigration and
Customs Enforcement began monitoring and tracking left-wing protests in New
York City, according to documents cited in a Wednesday report from The
Nation. On July 31, The Nation reports, ICE sent an email to a group of
recipients that included a Department of Homeland Security supervisor with
an attached document called "Anti-Trump Protest Spreadsheet 07/31/2018." The
four-page document reportedly listed the "time, date, location and purpose"
of protests and rallies between July 31 and August 17, and also tracked the
groups that organized them and the number of people that had RSVP'ed on
Facebook. The tracked actions were largely pro-immigration events; the only
right-wing protest that made the list was reportedly marked as a
"counter-protest."
In a statement to The Nation, ICE attempted to downplay the seriousness of
the list, claiming that "The referenced email was provided to HSI agents for
situational awareness should any HSI employees be travelling (sic) through
those areas, whether on work or personal time." But the tracked organizers
believe there's something more sinister about the list: "If [the Department
of Homeland Security] is specifically focusing on those who are against the
current president, it gets into the realm of what fascist regimes do," one
volunteer organizer said. "If they are watching us because we are against
the current president's policies, it is more than a little disturbing."
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