DHS Says Filming, Posting Videos of ICE Agents Is "Doxxing," Vows Prosecutions

[SamuelTheThird]

https://truthout.org/articles/dhs-says-filming-posting-videos-of-ice-agents-is-doxxing-vows-prosecutions/

he Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says filming and posting videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents constitutes “violence,” and has threatened to potentially charge people who take videos and photos of agents conducting immigration raids in their communities, despite First Amendment protections.

DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told the Center for Media and Democracy that “videotaping ICE law enforcement and posting photos and videos of them online is doxxing our agents.”

“We will prosecute those who illegally harass ICE agents to the fullest extent of the law,” she said.

[Prairie Gates]

1. The police are a secret

A secret police, if you will.

[Tbone421]

2. They're going to unavoidably be captured on countless security cameras....

[TommyT139]

3. A great link from within that article

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/yes-you-have-right-film-ice

From the Electronic Freedom Fdn.

[progressoid]

13. Thanks

[Lovie777]

4. Just stop it..................

damn, this administration is fucked up along with shithole.

[Blues Heron]

5. Fuck that Nazi shit, film them and they should be wearing body cameras so they don't violate people's rights

[Torchlight]

7. Must be a tough job to carry out state sanctioned violence

while simultaneously justifying one's own cowardice and lack of transparency. I'm sure they'll tell us "we're just following orders!"

[dalton99a]

8. Pretty soon it will be a felony to look at an ICE agent.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Brave people have been letting air out of ICE tires. . . . . nt

[Aimee in OKC]

15. I wonder if anybody's snapped a photo of a VIN on an ICE vehicle. n/t

[AZJonnie]

10. I'm sure the Shady Six will come up with some convoluted reason why this is perfectly constitutional

Despite the contents of the First Amendment and how videotaping of authorities acting in their official capacity as agents of The State has been ruled and affirmed as constitutionally protected by federal appellate courts every time it's come up. To whit: the First, Third, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits have held that citizens do have a First Amendment right to record police officers.

In fact, if this is allowed to fly, next will be prosecutions for anyone who dares to speak ill of ICE, period.

[-misanthroptimist]

11. Prosecute anything you want, ICEholes

Good luck convicting. One real American on each of those juries will put any end to this horseshit.

[Arazi]

12. They're public servants. Public.

These folks work for us and their names, salaries and positions are published in public records for a reason

[ProfessorGAC]

14. How Is It Doxxing...

...when they're wearing masks to conceal their identity?

[Duncan Grant]

16. Entitled, white, and blonde (32 yrs. old) with authoritarian "tendencies".

She’ll be a beautiful defendant at the inevitable post-trump administration trials.