Overview

• ICEBlock has grown to more than 20,000 users since its April launch and offers a free iOS platform for anonymous, real-time ICE sighting reports.
• CNN’s June 30 segment demonstrated how users drop map pins to flag ICE activity, triggering push alerts within five miles and auto-deleting reports after four hours.
• Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons called CNN’s promotion “reckless and irresponsible,” warning that the app “paints a target” on federal agents.
• White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt described the network’s coverage as unacceptable and said it risks encouraging violence against ICE officers.
• Border czar Tom Homan urged the Justice Department to investigate CNN for promoting a tool he labeled “simply disgusting” that could facilitate ambushes on agents.