Leftist Activist Admits Before Salt Lake City Council She RUNS “ICE Watch”
Claims Group Coordinates With Over 20,000 Migrants and Maintains Photo Database Targeting ICE Agents
A left-wing activist identifying herself only as “TJ” openly told the Salt Lake City Council that she runs a large-scale “ICE Watch” operation, a coordinated activist network that tracks federal immigration agents, collects photos, verifies tips, and shares real-time intelligence.
The shocking confession was delivered calmly and unapologetically.
According to her own words, TJ has been operating the network for nearly a full year, overseeing what amounts to a civilian surveillance and intelligence operation targeting federal law enforcement officers whose job it is to enforce U.S. immigration law.
TJ:
“TJ is here in person. My name is TJ. I’m a resident of Salt Lake City. I am uniquely informed about ICE activity, as I’ve been running a virtual ICE Watch with over 20,000 local, mostly Latino, community members for 356 days now. It’s community-led. People send me photos and tips, and I verify the information.
Over the year, we’ve witnessed repeated disregard for both constitutional and human rights of hardworking, tax-paying, beloved community members—the majority of whom have no criminal record at all.
We’ve seen federalized agents lie repeatedly about incidents to try and drum up federal charges. We’ve seen them force random store customers to lie on the ground and hold them at gunpoint.
We’ve seen them kidnap a woman with legal status to get her husband to surrender in her place.
You won’t hear most of these stories because families are too afraid to share. And while most incidents happen on the West Side, even the ones within Salt Lake City violate people’s Fourth Amendment rights against warrantless, racially profiled stops and unreasonable searches.