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‘Simply Disgusting’: Tom Homan Rakes CNN Over Coals For Reporting On App That Tracks ICE Agents

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Border czar Tom Homan on Monday eviscerated CNN for airing a segment that detailed how users can locate Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents through a new app.

CNN Business writer Clare Duffy appeared on “CNN News Central” to detail how users of the IceBlock app can anonymously pin the location of ICE agents who are located within five miles of them and publicly share specific details about the agents, such as their appearances and their vehicles. Homan said on “The Will Cain Show” that the network’s coverage of this app is “disgusting” and is an endangerment to ICE agents.

“It’s simply disgusting and any network that covers that is disgusting as well,” Homan told guest host Lawrence Jones. “So I’m hoping [the Department of Justice] steps in here and see if [the app] cross[es] that line, impeding federal law enforcement officers. Look, Lawrence, you and I have talked about this. Assaults against law enforcement officers are up 500%, now you’ve got an app that’s going to tell where ICE operations are going to be. It’s only a matter of time before ICE agents are ambushed by some nut, like what happened in [Los Angeles] [where they’re] throwing a Molotov cocktail [and] throwing bricks at these officers. This is just disgusting at every level.”

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Joshua Aaron, who describes himself as a “proud Antifa” on social media, told CNN that he created the app to act as an “early warning system” to help people avoid ICE operations. Users can digitally pin the exact location of ICE officers to alert people in the area of an ICE operation.

CNN told its viewers how they can download the app for free and detailed exactly how they can effectively track and publicly locate ICE agents.

“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 5 miles of that sighting will get a push alert,” Duffy said. “It is a free iPhone app, it is anonymous, Aaron does not collect any user data.”

Homan could not fathom why CNN would report on this matter.

“I’ve been doing this for four decades, I’ve never seen anything like this in my life,” Homan said. “It’s gotta be they hate [President Donald] Trump more than they love law enforcement. I can’t figure it out. But something needs to be done. I mean, you advertise this guy’s app on a national TV network? This is going to bring more followers, sick followers, to the app and use it. Again, letting the bad guy know ICE is coming … This is dangerous for the men and women of law enforcement.”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated on June 20 that ICE agents were facing a 500% increase in assaults while carrying out their duties, and families have been doxed and targeted, the Department of Homeland Security reported on June 20.  The agency confirmed on June 7 that Emiliano Garduno-Galvez, a previously deported illegal migrant from Mexico, was charged with attempted murder after he allegedly lit a Molotov cocktail as ICE agents were approaching nearby.

Agents have arrested illegal immigrations who are charged and convicted with heinous crimes, including murder, rape and drug distribution.

Acting ICE director Todd Lyons said in a statement that CNN’s “reckless and irresponsible” promotion of the app is “endangering the lives of officers who put their lives on the line.” CNN told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement that it simply “reported” on an app that is “generating attention across the United States.”