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Kristi Noem has branded an app that allows users to track the locations of ICE agents as an “obstruction of justice”, after its inventor said it was designed to help people avoid the officers.
The Secretary of Homeland Security said that the ICEblock app, which uses an anonymous reporting system to maintain a real-time map of ICE activity.
“This sure looks like obstruction of justice,” Noem wrote in a statement on X.
“Our brave ICE law enforcement face a 500 percent increase in assaults against them. If you obstruct or assault our law enforcement, we will hunt you down and you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
The app’s creator, Joshua Aaron, told CNN that he did not want anyone to use the app to target ICE officers, and that it was designed to help people “avoid them altogether if they want.”
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