Creators Of ICE Reporting Tools Press Censorship Claim Against Trump Admin
The Trump administration “demanded that Apple and Facebook censor speech — after repeatedly threatening criminal consequences for anyone associated with online tools reporting ICE activity — and then boasted the platforms had complied,” argue the Kreisau Group, which created the app EyesUp, and Kasandra Rosado, who created the Facebook group “ICE Sightings — Chicagoland.”
The creators of an app and Facebook group that enable people to report activity by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are pressing a federal judge to prohibit the Trump administration from “continuing to coerce” Apple and Meta into removing the tools.
Administration officials “demanded that Apple and Facebook censor speech — after repeatedly threatening criminal consequences for anyone associated with online tools reporting ICE activity — and then boasted the platforms had complied,” attorneys for Kreisau Group, which created the app EyesUp, and Kasandra Rosado, who created the Facebook group “ICE Sightings — Chicagoland,” write in papers filed this week with U.S. District Court Judge Jorge Alonso in the Northern District of Illinois.
“Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on this unrebutted record,” they add.
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