We’ve Been Fighting ICE For a Year, Come Join The Fight
Our efforts fighting ICE have now gone on for an entire year, and despite threats, attempts to suppress us, efforts from tech giants to block our website and a piece of legislation being written in a desperate attempt to stop us, we still have the largest database of ICE agents available to the public. The database in its second year is going to multiply in size, a testament to how little effect the U.S. government has had on trying to stop us.
On 31 May 2025, Kristi Noem, then the Trump regime’s Secretary of Homeland Security, issued a threat: any citizen who dared share the identity of an ICE agent online would be arrested. We reposted it, informing the U.S. public that this threat was not lawful. What’s more, we added that we would share any identities U.S. citizens wanted to get out there, and as we were based outside the United States, we were beyond her reach. Anyone who wished to share the identity of an ICE agent could send it to us, and we would publish it, and we have done that over 1,500 times so far, and are sitting on thousands of more names that are under verification.
I went to bed that night and thought nothing more of it. By the time I woke, the post had passed hundreds of thousands of views, and our inbox was full of people who wanted to help us find ICE agents. That is the morning ICE List began.
From May to December we ran on a barebones website, which solely named the individual agent identities. In December we launched the ICE List Wiki and told the world we were building the Wikipedia of ICE. That site now runs to thousands of pages, with well over a thousand agents documented, each held to our standard.
In the year since that initial tweet, we have been covered across the press, a Spanish television documentary was built largely around the project, and we were handed one of the largest leaks in the history of the U.S. government.
The regime, for its part, was not pleased, which we count as one of the clearest signals we are doing something right. There were public warnings, there were threats from officials, and then there was a bill.
I was named, by name, in the press release announcing Senator Marsha Blackburn’s “Protecting Law Enforcement from Doxxing Act.” It has yet to be voted on. As far as we know, it is the first piece of legislation written in response to our work. A government deporting people by the hundreds of thousands, chasing a million a year, and the thing it found worth legislating against was our little website. That’s a sign that they know how effective we could be.
So, we’re now at year two, and we’re going into our second year of operations with a head start we did not have last year, and a vision on how to operate that took a year of building to find. Over the next fortnight you will see the first of it, with more to come across the year.
Hundreds of new identities added, and we intend to beat that number.
A visual overhaul of the site, some of it already live, with more to follow.
A “Worst of the Worst”, putting the agents whose conduct we have documented most thoroughly front and centre. We hope to have a catalogue of the worst agents in every state
Free advertising space for anti-ICE organisations, entirely free ads on the ICE List, and they are only for companies who help those effected by ICE, those protesting ICE, or companies who have made a public stand against the Trump regime.
A homepage rebuilt as a hub for anyone resisting the regime: guides for protesters, advice on staying safe, and the products and services that resistance actually requires.
We are glad to be entering year two, and glad to be causing what John Lewis called good trouble along the way. Which brings us to the question we came here to ask: are you willing to come and make some good trouble with us?
What we need most is hands. If you have time, any time at all, we can use it. ICE List runs entirely on volunteers, and year two needs more of them than year one did. You do not need to be an investigator, you do not need credentials, you do not need to be anyone in particular. Whoever you are and whatever you are good at, there is a place for you, from an hour a week watching social media to the careful work of confirming an identity against the record.
The agencies we document are counting on one thing above all, which is that no one will bother. For a year, we have proven them wrong. Help us spend year two proving it harder.
Thank you for the support that led to the largest database on ICE in the public sphere. Here’s to year two.