US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents walk down a street during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. President Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the largest deportation effort in US history, vowing to ultimately deport all of the foreigners living in the country without permission. Photographer: Christopher Dilts\/Bloomberg | Image Credits:Christopher Dilts \/ Bloomberg \/ Getty Images <\/p>\n
ICEBlock, an iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, has rocketed to one of the coveted top spots in Apple\u2019s U.S. App Store rankings. The upshot: Criticism from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi helped get it there<\/a>.<\/p>\n Most of ICEBlock\u2019s users \u2014 about 20,000 \u2014 were in Los Angeles, where ICE raids have become commonplace<\/a> over recent weeks, according to CNN<\/a>. Following Bondi\u2019s remarks late Monday, the app went viral overnight. As of Tuesday afternoon, the app is now one of the most downloaded free iPhone apps in the United States.<\/p>\n With ICEBlock, users can lawfully share information about where they have seen ICE within a 5-mile radius of their location. The app also sends notifications when ICE agents are sighted near the user\u2019s location.<\/p>\n The app does not collect or store any user data, which TechCrunch confirmed by analyzing the app\u2019s network traffic as part of a test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents walk down a street during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[15565,10581,611,11335,5005,158,2065,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-31250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ice-agents","9":"tag-ice-raids","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-pam-bondi","12":"tag-president-donald-trump","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114780910609766885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}