Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company. The group, called ICE Sighting-Chicagoland, has been increasingly used over the last five weeks of “Operation Midway Blitz,” President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign, to warn neighbors that federal agents are near schools, grocery stores and other community locations so they can take steps to protect themselves. But the Trump administration has claimed that its agents — nearly all of whom wear face coverings, don’t wear badges and at times drive vehicles without license plates — are “under attack.” “Today, following outreach from the DOJ, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target ICE agents in Chicago,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement Tuesday. “The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs,” Bondi said. “The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite
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