WikiLeaks publishes identities and information about ICE employees

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WikiLeaks on Thursday published a database identifying more than 9,000 supposed current and former U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement employees, saying it is important for "increasing accountability."

The database contains the employees' publicly available personal information and job history scraped from LinkedIn, including deportation officers, IT workers, human resource interns and legal assistants, among others. The list includes their LinkedIn profile photos and information on educational background and the city and state where they're based.

"This information is an important public resource for understanding ICE programs and increasing accountability, especially in light of the extreme actions taken by ICE lately, such as the separation of children and parents at the US border," WikiLeaks wrote in its description of the data set.

But publication of the information comes amid intensifying anger at U.S. immigration officials and the Trump administration for its "zero tolerance" policy that has separated children from their parents along the border and follows organized heckling incidents directed at two of the architects of the policy, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Neilsen and White House aide Stephen Miller, as well as protests against ICE in Oregon and a rise in abusive social media posts about immigration authorities.

WikiLeaks, the website that published the Hillary Clinton email dump during the 2016 presidential election, is most notorious for its publication of classified or otherwise confidential documents, such as CIA documents detailing hacking techniques. Some have speculated that its founder, Julian Assange, has connections to Russia, since the intelligence community believes Russia stole Clinton's emails, but has not pinpointed how they ended up on WikiLeaks. In another high-profile case, Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army intelligence analyst, went to prison for leaking a trove of U.S. secrets to WikiLeaks in 2010, including video footage of the U.S. Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad.

In this case, WikiLeaks appears to have reproduced a project created by a New York-based artist and programmer named Sam Lavigne, who has taught as an adjunct instructor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and The New School's Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts.

Lavigne first attempted to publish the ICE database Tuesday using GitHub, which hosts open-source software development projects. At that time it contained information about more than 1,500 apparent ICE employees. But GitHub took it down, and the web page says "this repository has been disabled." Lavigne also published a blog post on Medium about the project, but Medium, too, took down his post, entitled "Downloading the profiles of everyone on LinkedIn who works for ICE."

"As ICE continues to ramp up its inhumane surveillance and detention efforts," he wrote, "I believe it's important to document what's happening, and by whom, in any way we can. To that end, I've downloaded and made available the profiles of (almost) everyone on LinkedIn who works for ICE, 1595 people total. While I don't have a precise idea of what should be done with this data set, I leave it here with the hope that researchers, journalists and activists will find it useful."

The left-wing website Splinter News published what it claimed was the cellphone number of Miller because of his defense of family separations, saying, "Perhaps you would like to call him about it." Twitter temporarily suspended users who shared the article.

And on Wednesday the office of Melania Trump complained to the Secret Service after the actor Peter Fonda went on a Twitter rampage saying Barron Trump should be "PUT IN A CAGE WITH PEDOPHILES" and that people should get the addresses of ICE agents and "SURROUND THEIR HOMES IN PROTEST." Fonda later apologized.

On Wednesday, the ICE office in Portland, Oregon, shut down because hundreds of protesters set up camp right outside its doors, blocking the entrance. Many of the protesters spent the night in tents for what The Oregonian described as a "round-the-clock-vigil." They gathered Tuesday afternoon to protest family separations and remained there after President Trump signed an executive order halting the separations, turning to family detention instead.

Employees had to be escorted out of the building.

"ICE operations at this location have been temporarily halted due to security concerns," a spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday morning, according to The Oregonian.

It closed again on Thursday.

"Wherever ICE agents dare to show their faces, they must be challenged and shamed for carrying out this fascist policy," the organization, Occupy ICE PDX, said in a statement on Facebook.

The group said it plans to stay "until concrete meaningful action is taken to reunite these families," encouraging similar protests at ICE offices across the country.


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Can't see this being a good idea.

[Elegiac]

Hm, I wonder what the Kremlin's trying to play at here.

[Independent voter]

Wikileaks is hoping ICE Employees are shot and killed.

[Elegiac]

Wikileaks is hoping ICE Employees are shot and killed.

They can always choose not to work for the gestapo.

[GennGreymane]

Wikileaks has done stuff like this before

I guess you dont support it anymore Lock?

[Projectmars]

How do we know everyone on that list works for ICE though? There could be a few innocents on there and in the rush to judgement we probably wouldn't notice.

[Dug]

Hm, I wonder what the Kremlin's trying to play at here.

Concern trolling to try and get wikileaks painted in a good light after it was revealed how compromised they and fuckface Assange are.

[Elegiac]

How do we know everyone on that list works for ICE though? There could be a few innocents on there and in the rush to judgement we probably wouldn't notice.

We don't, and the Kremlin pushing for this makes it suspect on the ground floor.

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Concern trolling to try and get wikileaks painted in a good light after it was revealed how compromised they and fuckface Assange are.

Plausible.

Let's get the Mythbusters back together to solve the case.

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Wikileaks has done stuff like this before

I guess you dont support it anymore Lock?

Support what exactly?

[GennGreymane]

Support what exactly?

I figured plain English was obvious.

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How do we know everyone on that list works for ICE though? There could be a few innocents on there and in the rush to judgement we probably wouldn't notice.

Are you saying anyone who works for ICE is guilty? If so what are they all collectively guilty of?

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I figured plain English was obvious.

Support leaking agents names and or addresses? I don't see anything good coming of it. Do you?

[GennGreymane]

Are you saying anyone who works for ICE is guilty? If so what are they all collectively guilty of?

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Support leaking agents names and or addresses? I don't see anything good coming of it. Do you?

You were all for it the last time wikileaks had started leaking, plus this is not the first time they have done this.

[Kujako]

Hm, I wonder what the Kremlin's trying to play at here.

Same as always, get everyone in the US to fight each other while they watch.

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[ICE offices in Portland, OR] closed again on Thursday.

"Wherever ICE agents dare to show their faces, they must be challenged and shamed for carrying out this fascist policy," the organization, Occupy ICE PDX, said in a statement on Facebook.

The group said it plans to stay "until concrete meaningful action is taken to reunite these families," encouraging similar protests at ICE offices across the country.


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Can't see this being a good idea.

It might not be a good idea, but it's a necessary action. We can't fall victim to the "we were just following orders" mentality that sent another country down the path of darkness. You know I'm usually on the side of LEO until facts are in, but in this case we cannot allow actions like this to be taken. ICE employees are caught in the middle, with the only moral choice being to resign - while of course it also being a completely impractical one (because they are just individuals who just want to support their own families).

This is how we win. We don't let them carry out their orders. Make them really think about what they're doing. Make them own their actions, personally.

[JohnBrown1917]

I though the far right loved wikileaks?


But good on them, nice going.

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Anything that thinks this is the way to go about this is an extremist. Plain and simple.
Holy shit, can't believe people are cheering for this. Just as bad the the people that are separating the kids & parents.

Yeah. Lets get some people killed. That will teach em.

[Elegiac]

Anything that thinks this is the way to go about this is an extremist. Plain and simple.
Holy shit, can't believe people are cheering for this. Just as bad the the people that are separating the kids & parents.

Yeah. Lets get some people killed. That will teach em.

What is it that you lot like to say about jobs that entail potential risks to the employees? "They can always work elsewhere"?

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You were all for it the last time wikileaks had started leaking, plus this is not the first time they have done this.

I think it really depends what they are leaking. In this case nothing good can come of it.

[GennGreymane]

I think it really depends what they are leaking. In this case nothing good can come of it.

That is not what you have implied prior. You have fully supported Wikileaks in the last.

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That is not what you have implied prior. You have fully supported Wikileaks in the last.

I don't fully support anything in life. I have fully supported independent leaks however this is one I don't support.