Activists offer their own crackdown on ICE through license plate tracking sites

Federal law enforcement carrying out immigration operations in cities across the United States face nationwide pushback from activists determined to “out” them while in public.

Since employees of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a federal agency, began ramping up arrests of primarily criminal illegal immigrants in early 2025, the Trump administration has sent in thousands more federal agents and officers from across the departments of Homeland Security and Justice to supplement ICE.

But as ICE and other federal police have surged personnel to arrest more illegal immigrants, some private citizens and illegal immigrants have equally stepped up their fight against the feds, debuting and expanding websites that claim to track ICE and others in real time.

Federal police face serious blowback that government officials have warned could