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Fox News
4 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
ICE mask debate heats up as doxxing and agent assaults surge
The growing national debate over whether federal immigration agents should be allowed to wear masks during dangerous enforcement actions is intensifying into a showdown between the Trump administration, Democrats and anti-ICE activists. The news comes as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has raised concerns about the doxxing of ICE agents, as attacks on them have skyrocketed by 830% since January, the agency said. In a new July memo, the DHS has called on the Justice Department to prosecute anyone suspected of "doxxing" ICE agents by posting agents' photos and personal information online or in public. "We will prosecute those who dox ICE agents to the fullest extent of the law. These criminals are taking the side of vicious cartels and human traffickers," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is quoted in the memo. "We won't allow it in America." In California, a bill aimed at preventing law enforcement from covering their faces passed a key committee this week, edging it one step closer to becoming state law. Similar bills have been introduced in Massachusetts and New York, while 21 Democrat attorneys general have also urged Congress to ban federal immigration agents from wearing masks or plainclothes during enforcement operations. Sens. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., two of the leading Capitol Hill critics of President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, introduced legislation that would require immigration enforcement officers to clearly identify themselves without masks. Democrats like Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Congressman Lou Correa of California have also spoken out against the facial coverings. "Only the bad guys wear masks, let's knock it off," Correa said. There is currently no standalone federal statute that criminalizes doxxing, although if someone posts ICE agents' personal info with the intent to harass, threaten or incite violence, it may violate the law. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R- Tenn., last month introduced the Protecting Law Enforcement from Doxxing Act, which would make doxxing federal agents a serious crime, carrying up to five years in prison and fines. "When their name, their operation, their work is being revealed, we will make that a federal crime," Blackburn told Fox News. Blackburn introduced the legislation after Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell, a Democrat, faced backlash for releasing a public report naming federal officers, which ultimately resulted in doxxing accusations. There are also websites and social media accounts growing in notoriety that have the self-described missions of revealing who federal immigration agents are. Some cases go into great detail with photos, history and identifying information of federal immigration workers. A current ICE special agent told Fox News that he was shocked to learn that he and his wife's photos and their small town location were posted on a doxxing website recently. "My wife is home a lot with my three kids, and she doesn't have the ability to protect herself like I do," said the agent, who asked not to be identified. The agent's doxxing is costing his family emotionally and financially. He said that after he puts his kids to sleep at night, he walks the perimeter of his property and is constantly worried about his family at home while he's in the field. "We spent close to $1,000 on additional cameras for various points of our home," the agent said. Anti-ICE activists across the U.S. have been protesting immigration enforcement, sometimes harassing ICE agents and demanding their badge numbers and the removal of their masks. At times, the protesters have turned violent. ICE agents were attacked and had rocks thrown at their moving vehicles during a raid on a marijuana farm last week, while ICE agents have also come under attack outside an ICE detention facility in Portland. Law enforcement vehicles were also pelted with rocks during deportation-linked rioting in Los Angeles. DHS accused Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., of showing a violent mob an ICE employee's business card, prompting a mob to attack him. The official was struck by a rock and sent to the emergency room, where he received multiple stitches, DHS said. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin slammed Democrats' resistance to ICE enforcement. "Brave ICE law enforcement are risking their lives every day to keep our communities safe from the worst of the worst criminals," McLaughlin said. "ICE law enforcement are succeeding to remove terrorists, murderers, pedophiles and the most depraved among us from America's communities, even as crazed rhetoric from gutter politicians are inspiring a massive increase in assaults against them." "It is reprehensible that our officers are facing this threat while simply doing their jobs and enforcing the law."
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'SNL''s Devon Walker says Try Guys sketch writer was doxxed by fans: 'They had to get security for him'
Writing for Saturday Night Live might have unintended consequences. Devon Walker, who joined the sketch show its 48th season, said that an SNL staffer was doxxed and received death threats after writing a sketch that mocked the YouTube creators The Try Guys. "They had to get security for him because people were sending him death threats, 'cause he wrote a sketch on Saturday Night Live," Walker said on the podcast Lemme Say This. Representatives for Saturday Night Live did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly's request for comment. On the podcast, Walker said that a writer who he "will not name because this got him in so much s---" infuriated the Try Guys fandom after penning the 2022 sketch that mocked the group's response to an infamous workplace scandal. "He went to college with one of the Try Guys guys," Walker said of the writer. "[He] wasn't friends with him or anything, just went to school with him. [He] wrote a sketch about it, kind of just being like, 'Isn't this a silly thing that we're all getting upset about?' He literally got doxxed. He got doxxed by the Try Guys fans." The sketch in question saw a CNN reporter (Brendan Gleeson) interrupt his broadcast at the White House to discuss the breaking news that the Try Guys (played by Bowen Yang, Mikey Day, and Andrew Dismukes) had dismissed former member Ned Fulmer from their ranks after cheating on his wife with an employee at their company. Walker said that the Try Guys fandom's backlash to the sketch illustrates why he never wants to engage in online scandals or feuds. "I just wanna live a peaceful life," he said. "I just wanna walk around my neighborhood, eat scones. I don't want the smoke, really. I don't wanna be in no beef. They had to get security for him." Fulmer actually was the center of a scandal that led to his exit from the group after having an affair with an employee. Some critics of the sketch argued that SNL's parody of the incident inappropriately made light of the problematic power dynamic between Fulmer and his employee, while others noted that Fulmer went to Yale at the same time as SNL writer Will Stephen. (Representatives for Stephen did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.)Listen to the full interview with Walker above. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
Fox News
7 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
ICE employee brought to emergency room after alleged doxxing in California
FIRST ON FOX: The Immigration and Customs Enforcement employee DHS says was doxxed by Rep. Salud Carbajal was taken to the emergency room on Thursday for stitches after a rock was thrown at him, causing his hand to bleed, according to new pictures from the department. The ICE Public Affairs specialist, who DHS said had his business card shown to the mob protesting the raid by the congressman, had a rock thrown at him, which caused injury to his left hand. Images show the bloodied hand before and after the incident. The farm was the subject of a criminal search warrant by federal immigration authorities. "The actions by Representative Carbajal are downright un-American. He dares to claim that his actions were simply congressional oversight, but doxxing ICE personnel and inciting a mob of rioters to attack law enforcement is NOT oversight—it's abominable," Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. "His actions sent an ICE employee to the emergency room. It's no wonder that ICE agents are facing a 700% increase in assaults when radical members of Congress like Salud Carbajal and Monica McIver are openly encouraging and leading their supporters in assaulting law enforcement," McLaughlin continued. The incident took place at a massive riot that broke out as ICE conducted operations at a California marijuana farm in Carpinteria, which resulted in 361 arrests of those in the country illegally. DHS said it rescued 14 migrant children who may have been victims of trafficking, forced labor and exploitation. A child labor investigation is ongoing at the federal level. DHS said there were 500 rioters at the incident, as operations in the Golden State have been subject to major protests and riots in recent weeks. Meanwhile, Carbajal slammed the doxxing allegations in an X post on Sunday. "This is a blatant attempt to distort what occurred in Carpinteria. DHS and ICE conducted their raid using a disturbing and disproportionate level of force, both on the farm workers they were targeting and the peaceful protesters who gathered to defend their neighbors," he posted to X. "I witnessed agents, in full military gear, fire smoke canisters and other projectiles into a crowd of peaceful civilians. Just before I arrived at the scene, witnesses told me the agents threw a stun grenade into the crowd. Several civilians were injured, including a child," the congressman continued. "This aggressive behavior in a normally quiet part of the Central Coast sparked alarm across our community, prompting a flood of calls and messages to my office from concerned citizens. I went to the scene to seek answers and represent my constituents. ICE's claims of 'doxxing' and 'violent mobs' are familiar deflection tactics designed to distort public perception and to evade accountability for their aggressive actions in our community," he added. The company that operates the facility, Glass House Farms, said they "never knowingly violated applicable hiring practices and does not and has never employed minors." Two of the company's leaders, Kyle Kazan and Graham Farrar, previously donated to Carbajal's congressional campaign, as recently as 2022 in Farrar's case, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Second KC worker who was doxxed and harassed after Harrison Butker post sues city
Two Kansas City communications staffers feared for their safety after they were falsely accused last year of doxxing Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker on the city's social media account after he made some controversial remarks. The women were subjected to hateful, racist and misogynistic threats and feared they might be harmed by online anonymous thugs. Now both are suing the city, claiming that Mayor Quinton Lucas and other city officials refused to clear their names, which damaged their reputations and allowed the harassment to continue. April Leonard, the city's former social media manager, levied those allegations in a court filing this week. The document amended the employment discrimination lawsuit she filed against the city in March. Leonard, who still works for the city in a different job, alleged in that initial petition for damages that she was the victim of employment discrimination based on the city's failure to fully accommodate her needs as someone who suffers from an autoimmune condition. The second amended petition filed this week includes details about the Butker incident and gives one reason why it was possible for someone to post an unauthorized message on the city's X account. Leonard's petition says the city was lax in granting multiple employees access to its social media accounts. She claims that she repeatedly expressed concerns about that to her bosses, fearing that it made her and a co-worker 'vulnerable, as they were identifiable as social media managers for the City.' Last month, Leonard's co-worker Andrea Watts also alleged in a court filing that city officials did too little to clear her name after she was misidentified as being responsible for an unsigned May 14, 2024 posting on X that said Butker lives in Lee's Summit. The person who wrote it was trying in a sarcastic way to distance Kansas City from the comments Butker made at a college graduation ceremony that some found offensive. Neither woman had anything to do with the post. Another person with access to the city's X account was found to be responsible and fired. City officials deleted and apologized for the message about Butker 40 minutes after it was posted. The city's account was inundated with angry comments accusing the city of putting Butker in peril by noting the name of the Kansas City suburb where he lives. That's not the strict definition of doxxing because the post did not give Butker's address. Lee's Summit had 106,000 residents as of a year ago, according the Census Bureau. But the two women were doxxed in a true sense . Critics of the Butker post searched for and posted the women's names, where they lived and other personal information, supposing they were responsible based solely on them having social media responsibilities in the city's communications department. According to the lawsuits, they got death threats and were denounced with ugly slurs. Both women are Black and were vilified based on their race and gender. 'There is no hole deep enough, no woods deep enough for you to hide in,' one post read, according to the lawsuit Watts filed. Another pictured a Black woman hanging from a tree in front of a photograph of the apartment building where Watts lived along with her full name and address. Leonard was called a 'ghetto rat' and the N word, her lawsuit said. Someone called Savage Ravage said Butker should sue city officials and 'I hope everyone involved in running this account d!es of AIDS and ass cancer. And that's the least of what you deserve.' Leonard was terrified, the suit says. She called the police after seeing two men watching her house. The city agreed to put her up in a hotel for two nights, but refused to cover her meals. And both she and Watts say the city never made the public statement they requested stating clearly that they were not the people responsible for the Butker post. Instead, Mayor Quinton Lucas pleaded with the public to stop harassing the women, but he never named them. 'Over the past 24 hours, some seeking to harass, bully, and intimidate have sent slurs and threats to and shared photos of women employees with no involvement with recent City posts,' he said on X. 'Honestly, please just stop, be decent. The buck stops with me. Please leave them alone.' Lucas, a Democrat, later accused Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, of keeping the furor going by appearing on TV and demanding an investigation. 'I was disheartened when the City failed to support me and a colleague regarding the Butker tweet, leading to ongoing and undue public scrutiny, harassment, and a hostile work environment,' Leonard said in a news release issued by her attorney Heather Schlozman. 'We pleaded for help and our safety, asking for the City to clear our names immediately. That stress exacerbated my autoimmune condition and ultimately led to hospitalizations.' The lawsuits seek monetary damages and any relief a court sees fit. The city does not comment on pending litigation or personnel matters, city spokeswoman Sherae Honeycutt said.
Daily Mail
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Jewish music bosses who called for Kneecap ban at Glastonbury targeted after names are leaked
More than 30 of Britain's top music industry moguls have been targeted in a vicious online campaign that falsely brands them 'supporters of genocide' in the Middle East, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The 'doxxing' attack is being orchestrated by former UK university professor David Miller, who is a presenter on the Iranian-backed Press TV channel. It features the names, photos and email addresses of some of pop's biggest producers, music publishers and lawyers – many of whom are Jewish – accompanied by a string of unsubstantiated and inflammatory allegations. One producer was branded a 'dedicated Zionist cancel agent', while another industry figure was accused of being involved in a 'Zionist regime front group'. Last night the Community Security Trust, a charity established to help protect Britain's Jews, condemned it as a 'particularly personal and focused attack'. Dave Rich, its head of policy, accused Mr Miller of targeting Jews 'every week' in online attacks that spark 'appalling social media pile-ons, including anti-Semitic threats and abuse'. 'For the people who get targeted by him it can be upsetting and alarming,' he added. 'We have given a lot of people across the Jewish community advice and support, including at times specific security advice, to mitigate against this.' Mr Miller's rant was published on X after the executives were named as supporters of a private email sent to Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis, her husband Nick Dewey and a man thought to be operations director Melvin Benn ahead of this year's festival. The message, which was written by a veteran agent and copied to other senior music industry figures, urged the festival to drop Irish rap trio Kneecap over its public support for two proscribed terrorist groups – Hamas and Hezbollah. The email included the names of the 34 executives, whose businesses are linked to a string of global stars. But its contents later appeared to have been leaked to Kneecap and then appeared more widely on social media. Glastonbury last night said it 'categorically' denies the email was leaked by Ms Eavis or anyone else working for the festival. Mr Miller, a 61-year-old former professor of political sociology at Bristol University, told his 94,400 X followers that if they 'oppose the genocide' they might want to write to the executives he identified. He claimed he did not publish any private information about any of the music executives but the email was marked 'private and confidential'. Mr Rich added: 'When he went after the people who signed the letter to Glastonbury it was a particularly personal and focused attack because he devoted so much social media space to publishing their pictures and names and, for some of them, contact details. 'Importantly, he's doing this as a presumably paid employee of the Iranian state through his work for Press TV.' Earlier this year Mr Miller posted social media videos appearing to show him at the Beirut funerals of Iranian-backed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and the group's deputy Hashem Safieddine. Both were killed in Israeli air strikes. Few of the executives named by Mr Miller were prepared to speak openly when approached by The Mail on Sunday. But one of them, Leo Pearlman, co-founder of production company Fulwell Entertainment, accused Miller of having 'doxxed' the signatories to the email. Writing on LinkedIn he said: 'The purpose of the leak to Kneecap and Miller was clear: to shame, harass and intimidate. I've been saying for 20 months now that it's on all of us to speak out, to stand up and to refuse to bow to hate.' In a statement Mr Miller said that 'accountability and justice are coming for Zionist crimes. 'Under international law, this also applies to those responsible for incitement to genocide, including those in media, arts and culture. There will be no escape from accountability for Zionists in the music industry for their participation in this genocide.'
