From Seattle to Portland - Growing Opposition to ICE (Protests & Doxing)

The Seattle Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and Microsoft employees are demonstrating, hanging banners from overpasses, and handing out flyers outside of Microsoft HQ calling on the company to drop it's $19.4 million contract with ICE.

 

At least nine protesters were arrested as authorities broke up part of the protest camp surrounding Southwest Portland's Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters early Thursday morning.

And on Tuesday night, ten protesters were arrested outside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, after blocking the road and assaulting an officer. In an ongoing protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Tacoma Police said forty people started blocking the road and standing in front of an officer’s patrol car refusing to move.

According to the Daily Caller (June 20, 2018) Antifa, a violent, so-called anti-fascist group, tweeted out a list of over 1,500 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ identities. These identities were reposted by WikiLeaks, and by political activists in the Pacific Northwest.

The names and photos of ICE agents / employees from the Portland area were added to flyers posted around the city, asking that businesses not provide service to these individuals. 

Regardless of your opposition to, or support for, the current immigration and customs enforcement policies, and the function of ICE agents in our communities, these flyers demonstrate the importance of data privacy and personal security. Information the you post on-line (i.e. LinkedIn, Facebook) can be used to target you.

Doxing, the practice of researching and broadcasting private or identifiable information (especially personally identifiable information) about an individual, which may include names, addresses, telephone numbers, family information, financial information, vehicle descriptions, and more, is a concern for anyone with a government job, or a controversial public presence.