Homan Blasts ‘Simply Disgusting’ CNN For Promoting ICE Tracking App

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Trump administration border czar Tom Homan blasted an app that tracks ICE agents, as well as CNN for promoting the app, calling the network disgusting while adding, “It’s only a matter of time before ICE officers are going to be ambushed by some nut.”

The app, called ICEBlock, tracks the locations of ICE agents, asking its users to pinpoint where ICE agents are. On Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated, “It’s unacceptable that a major network would promote such an app that is encouraging violence against officers who are trying to keep our country safe.”

Earlier on Monday, CNN anchor John Berman stated, “As the Trump administration steps up ICE raids and mass deportations, one tech developer is pushing back with an app designed to track ICE activity in real time. It’s called ICEBlock and it’s controversial, to say the least.” He asked CNN’s Clare Duffy how the app worked.

“I talked with Joshua Aaron, who is the longtime tech worker who developed this platform, and he said he really wants it to be an early warning system for people about the location of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers,” Duffy replied. “So he 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. This is a free iPhone app. It is anonymous.”

Asked about the app and CNN’s reporting by Fox News’ Lawrence Jones, Homan replied,  “It’s simply disgusting, and any network that covers that is disgusting as well. So I’m hoping DOJ steps in here and see if they crossed that line, impeding federal law enforcement officers. … Assaults against ICE is (sic) up over 500%.”

“Now you got an app that’s going to tell where ICE operatives are going to be,” he continued. “It’s only a matter of time before ICE officers are going to be ambushed by some nut, like what happened in LA, throwing a Molotov cocktail, throwing bricks at these officers. 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. This shouldn’t be a partisan issue. This shouldn’t be an issue anybody is against. They’re 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. It’s incredible that those who enforce law, all of a sudden they’re the bad guys, the ones who break the law, they’re victims. It’s disgusting.”

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