Citizens are tracking ICE in real time to warn migrants. Is that legal?


ICE agents in newly designed vehicles arrive ahead of a scheduled speech by Trump at the Park Police Anacostia Operating Facility on Aug 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. From California to New York, activists are using apps to track ICE raids. — AFP

In Los Angeles, Francisco "Chavo" Romero and a dozen other immigration activists were out before dawn on a recent summer morning, gathering near an ICE staging area so they could tail the immigration agents' vehicles and send alerts over social media on the officers' whereabouts.

In Austin, a technology worker created an app to report sightings of agents – it has over 1 million users. On Long Island, New York, another activist developed a similar app to report immigration enforcement raids in local areas.

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