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(NewsNation) — Two Oregon-based organizations that the Department of Homeland Security says are reportedly affiliated with Antifa are being targeted for making backstage accusation astir Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers public, NewsNation has learned.
The bureau said that the 2 Portland groups, identified arsenic “Rose City Counter Info” and “The Crustian Daily,” are publishing the names, photos and addresses of ICE officers connected their website and societal media platforms. DHS officials said that the 2 groups are among aggregate organizations that look to beryllium liable for publishing backstage accusation and the identities of migration agents and officers and posting them astatine locations astir Portland.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said Friday that these efforts, called doxing, enactment instrumentality enforcement officers “in sedate danger” and perchance springiness different planetary transgression organizations, specified arsenic Tren de Aragua and MS-13, entree to national migration officers and their families.
Noem’s informing comes arsenic the bureau has said that attacks connected national migration officers and agents person accrued importantly successful caller months. NewsNation has confirmed that DHS is reporting a astir 700% summation successful attacks connected ICE officers. The bureau has repeatedly reported ample increases successful attacks connected national officers, but does not people hard data.
Fox News reported that betwixt January and June 2024, 10 assaults and attacks took spot connected ICE officers, but that the fig has accrued to 69 incidents during the aforesaid clip framework this year.
The bureau has not specified what it considers an battle connected national officers and agents. But successful a connection issued connected Friday, Noem said that DHS volition spell aft groups that are recovered to stock delicate accusation astir ICE officers publicly.
“We volition prosecute those who dox ICE agents to the fullest grade of the law,” Noem said. “These criminals are taking the broadside of vicious cartels and quality traffickers. We won’t let it successful America.”
Noem’s informing came aft DHS officials reported that 2 national migration officers were injured implicit the July 4 play successful Texas erstwhile gunmen reportedly fired astatine the officers successful 2 antithetic incidents.
Who are the Portland groups DHS has identified?
ICERose City Counter-Info characterizes itself arsenic a “counter-info” task and a level for accusation to beryllium highlighted to “anarchists and radicals” successful Portland and the greater Portland area.
A reappraisal of the website by NewsNation showed that the radical had published photos and believed mailing addresses of ICE officers connected a leafage that included a bolded headline, “No Peace For ICE Agents." The leafage called for solidarity with the “uprising” that is taking spot successful Los Angeles involving anti-ICE protests. It besides published a connection of “No borders, nary nations and nary deportations.”
Department of Homeland Security officials accidental that 2 Portland groups are among aggregate organizations that the bureau believes successful posting delicate accusation astir Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. (Photo courtesy of the Department of Homeland Security)The Crustian Daily website is inactive, but the group’s Instagram relationship includes a how-to leafage connected publically identifying ICE officers that included requests for publishing the LinkedIn profiles and existent employment presumption of ICE officers, photos of ICE officers not wearing masks, video screenshots of instances erstwhile an ICE officer’s face-covering slips and known Facebook accounts for those considered to enactment for the national migration agency.
“We volition people each confirmed agents,” the Instagram station said.
In identifying the 2 Portland groups, DHS officials published photos of signs posted astir Portland that see photos of known ICE officers and requests for accusation astir national migration officers to beryllium submitted to an email code linked to the groups.
The efforts to place ICE officers travel arsenic officials said that the ICE installation successful Portland has been “under siege” by protesters. DHS said Friday that ICE officials person been attacked, that national spot has been destroyed and that decease threats person been posted astatine the facility, officials claim.
The White House said that the incidental successful Portland took spot connected July 4 and that officers were kicked, punched and targeted with an “incendiary device.”
Graffiti, including a connection that reads "Kill Your Masters" is posted extracurricular of the ICE installation successful Portland. (Photo courtesy of the Department of Homeland Security)ABC2 successful Portland reported that 3 radical person been charged with felonies successful transportation with the incidental astatine the facility, which the section presumption reported has been the tract of ongoing anti-ICE protests. The 3 radical were each charged with assaulting a national serviceman and 1 of the defendants was charged with assaulting a national serviceman with a deadly oregon unsafe weapon.
Portland Police did not instantly instrumentality a petition for remark from NewsNation astir the 2 section organizations that person been identified by DHS officials.
