AN UNPRECEDENTED LEAK of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses, but also references to internal systems and sensitive information on undercover and surveillance programs. In all, the leak provides a map of how DHS is organized and how it operates.
The records, which span DHS itself as well as seven component agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Customs and Border Protection, were last updated on August 19, 2026. The transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets and cybersecurity researcher and journalist maia arson crimew previewed the data to WIRED, which they say they obtained from a group calling itself the Department of Peace.
It seems to me that ICE would be far better off conducting its business in such a way as to not be worried about being publicly identifiable. Regular police officers are able to do their duties without masks and with the requirement to display their badges, and I dare ICE to claim that regular police don’t do work as dangerous as ICE.
Obviously undercover work is the exception, but when the entirety of ICE goes around masked, they’d be fools not to expect an overcorrection.
Regular police are still generally unaccountable thugs
Which makes it all the more crazy that ICE feels that it needs additional unaccountability beyond what already covers cops for so much.
Don’t give them too much benefit of the doubt, more than a handful in incidents where standard beat cops are quick to hide their badge numbers when being legally recorded by innocent bystanders
Just heard a report that said essentially there are more local law enforcement doing the job than actual ICE agents.
maybe we should treat locals like ice not the other way around? also, don’t call them local. they don’t live in the places where they enforce. say municipal.
Oh I can literally guarantee what ICE agents do isn’t nearly as dangerous as what regular cops do. The only real danger ICE faces is self-induced by wearing masks to remain unidentifiable while they terrorize American citizens. Their jobs would be even safer than they already are if they weren’t acting as a rapist’s gestapo.
There is no reason for undercover ICE operations, period.
ICE isn’t just supposed to be Nazi gestapo rounding up people the President is tarelgeting as a political distraction.
There is a place for undercover investigations of smuggling and human trafficking rings.
Yeah, and ICE isn’t that place. ICE was created in the after math of 9/11 as a way to address the “terrorism” threat. It has failed spectacularly at the actual job they were created to address.
No disagreement that they’ve failed in their mission and have become a tool of fascism, but conceptually there’s a place for an investigative law enforcement agency specializing in immigration and customs. Having undercover assets investigating human trafficking and smuggling would be appropriate as a part of that agency’s activities.
It should still be abolished, of course. ICE is irredeemable at this point.
We have the CIA, FBI, NSA, and a number of other three letter agencies that can do that. ICE has no need to exist, and we did just fine before it was created.