As Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to uphold immigration laws by arresting and deporting illegal immigrants nationwide, Monday Morning’s CNN’s New Central fouled a bizarre and dangerous app that is “designed to track ICE activity in real time,” thus putting lives in danger. 

ICE officers already have difficult jobs and deserve the highest respect, but liberal tech bros seek to not only oppose protection policies but interfere with ICE’s operations. Joshua Aaron, who is the tech designer for the app, “ICEBlock” spoke to CNN’s business writer Clare Duffy, who described the app:  

So, you open the app-it looks like a map-and users can tap the map to report an ICE sighting in their area. And then everybody who uses the platform within five miles of that sighting will get a push alert. This is a free iPhone app. It is anonymous. Aaron says he doesn’t collect any user data. And what I think is really interesting about this in this moment is we’ve seen so many of the biggest leaders in tech supporting President Trump. But Aaron is sort of an example of the fact that there are people within the tech industry who are really resistant to Trump’s policies.  

 

Aaron also shared with Duffy what he would say to tech leaders who were present at Trump’s inauguration: “I understand that you have shareholders to report to. I understand that you have employees that need their paychecks. But at what point do you say enough is enough?” 

“Enough is enough” is not censoring law enforcement who are doing their jobs. Let this serve as an example of how misleading the liberal media has brainwashed the public to oppose law and order under the Trump administration, to the point where an app has the purpose of being an “early warning system for people” for the specific locations of ICE officers.  

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons clapped back at CNN for the news coverage on the app and voiced: 

CNN’s promotion of an ‘ICE spotting’ app is reckless and irresponsible. Advertising an app that basically paints a target on federal law enforcement officers’ backs is sickening. My officers and agents are already facing a 500% increase in assaults, and going on live television to announce ap app that lets anyone zero in on their locations is like inviting violence against them with a national megaphone. CNN is willfully endangering the lives of officers who put their lives on the line every day and enabling dangerous criminal aliens to evade U.S. law. Is this simply reckless ‘journalism’ or over activism?  

So much for chivalry and protecting the public. CNN seems to instead have some gone down the road of indictment, hardening back to the firey but mostly peaceful days. 

Lyons is right that ICE officers engage with “dangerous criminal aliens’ every day, but would CNN push the idea of having Americans suffer because their assilant evaded deportation. 

There is a clear divide between those who want to protect the American people and those who want to protect people who came in here illegally. CNN just showed where they stand.

Click here for the transcripts.

CNN News Central

06/30/25

7:59 a.m.

JOHN BERMAN: All right. New this morning as the Trump administration steps up ICE raids and mass deportations, one tech developer is pushing back with an app designed to track ICE activity in real time. It’s called ICEBlock and it’s controversial to say the least. CNN’s Clare Duffy is with us now. How does this work, Clare, and what are the legal implications?

CLARE DUFFY: Yeah, John. I talked with Joshua Aaron, who is the longtime tech worker who developed this platform, and he said he really wants it to be an early warning system for people about the location of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers. So he says he does not want people interfering with those officers’ activity, but he does want people to be able to avoid them altogether if they want. So, you open the app — it looks like a map — and users can tap the map to report an ICE sighting in their area. And then everybody who uses the platform within five miles of that sighting will get a push alert. This is a free iPhone app. It is anonymous. Aaron says he doesn’t collect any user data. And what I think is really interesting about this in this moment is we’ve seen so many of the biggest leaders in tech supporting President Trump. But Aaron is sort of an example of the fact that there are people within the tech industry who are really resistant to Trump’s policies. I asked him what he would say to those tech leaders who, for example, were at the inauguration. Here’s what he told me. Take a listen.

JOSHUA AARON: I understand that you have shareholders to report to. I understand that you have employees that need their paychecks. But at what point do you say enough is enough?

DUFFY: And John, I should say that ICE did not respond when I asked them about this platform and about Aaron’s opposition to their activity.

BERMAN: All right. It’d be interesting to see where that goes next. Clare Duffy, thank you so much for your reporting.