White House Border Czar Tom Homan on Monday condemned CNN for promoting an app that allows users to track ICE agents, urging the Justice Department to launch an investigation into the app.
Called ICEBlock, the app lets users report the locations of ICE agents in real time. The Daily Wire highlighted both the app and CNN’s on-air promotion of it to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“It sounds like this would be an incitement of further violence against our ICE officers,” Leavitt said. “It’s unacceptable that a major network would promote such an app that is encouraging violence against law enforcement officers who are trying to keep our country safe.”
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On Monday, Homan said the app was “simply disgusting,” saying “any network that covers that is disgusting as well.”
“It’s only a matter of time before ICE officers are going to be ambushed by some nut, like what happened in L.A., throwing a Molotov cocktail, throwing bricks at these officers,” Homan said. “This is just disgusting at every level, so I hope DOJ dives in this deeply, because ICE is concentrating on public safety threats and national security threats.”
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CNN’s Clare Duffy highlighted the app Monday morning, saying that the app developer “says he does not want people interfering with those officers’ activity, but he does want people to be able to avoid them altogether if they want.”
“So you open the app — it looks like a map — and users can tap the map to report an ICE sighting in their area. And then everybody who uses the platform within five miles of that sighting will get a push alert,” Duffy added.
Homan responded, “This shouldn’t be a partisan issue,” Homan said, noting that assaults on ICE agents have climbed 500%. “This shouldn’t be an issue anybody is against.” ICE agents, Homan said, are “already in a dangerous job going after the worst of the worst.”
“These guys are putting their lives on the line every day going after the worst of the worst, and a national security threat, and this app makes it much more dangerous,” the border czar added. “It’s incredible that those who enforce the law, all of a sudden, they’re the bad guys, the ones who break the law, they’re victims. It’s disgusting.”