Original Date Announced

President Trump issued National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, directing the National Joint Terrorism Task Force and its local offices (JTTFs) to "investigate, prosecute, and disrupt entities and individuals engaged in acts of political violence and intimidation designed to suppress lawful political activity or obstruct the rule of law." In describing "acts of political violence," Section 1 of the memorandum references "[r]iots in Los Angeles and Portland" that it asserts "reflect a more than 1,000 percent increase in attacks on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers." It specifically references the "organized doxing" of ICE agents as "obstrut[ing] the operations of the Federal Government as well as aid[ing] and abet[ing] criminal activity the Federal Government is lawfully pursuing."

Section 2(b) of the memorandum targets "potential Federal crimes relating to acts of recruiting or radicalizing persons for the purpose of: (i) political violence, terrorism, or conspiracy against rights; or (ii) the violent deprivation of any citizen's rights." Section 2(c) further directs JTTFs to investigate "institutional and individual funders, and officers and employees of organizations, that are responsible for, sponsor, or otherwise aid and abet the principal actors engaging in the criminal conduct" described in Section 2(b). Section 2(h) directs the Attorney General to order the prosecution of all activities described in subsections (a) through (c) "to the maximum extent permissible by law."

Section 2(h) directs the Attorney General to "issue specific guidance that ensures domestic terrorism priorities include politically motivated terrorist acts such as organized doxing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, destruction of property, threats of violence, and civil disorder. This guidance shall also include an identification of any behaviors, fact patterns, recurrent motivations, or other indicia common to organizations and entities that coordinate these acts in order to direct efforts to identify and prevent potential violent activity."

Sections 2(i) and (j) respectively direct the Secretary of the Treasury to investigate "financial networks that fund domestic terrorism and political violence" and the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service to "take action to ensure that no tax-exempt entities are directly or indirectly financing political violence or domestic extremism."

Section 3 provides that the Attorney General "may recommend that any group or entity whose members are engaged in activities meeting the definition of 'domestic terrorism' in 18 U.S.C. 2331(5) merits designation as a 'domestic terrorist organization,'" and the AG shall submit a list of such groups to the President. A "domestic terrorist organization" is not a term that appears in U.S. law.

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2025.09.09 DHS Says Making and Posting Videos of ICE Agents is “Violence” - Center for Media and Democracy

DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told the Center for Media and Democracy that "videotaping ICE law enforcement and posting photos and videos of them online is doxing our agents."

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2025.09.18 Motion to Quash for @Stopicenet - In re Subpoena Number FY25-ELC-0105

DHS issued a subpoena to Meta seeking information from a group named "Stop ICE," which has posted videos identifying individual ICE officers based on public information. The Civil Liberties Defense Center filed a motion to quash this subpoena in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. In the Matter of the Subpoena Number FY25-ELC-0105, No. 4:25-MC-80284 (N.D. Cal.).

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2025.09.18 Motion to Quash Administrative Subpoena for @LBProtest - In re Subpoena Number FY25-ELC-0105

An anonymous litigant moved to a quash an administrative subpoena for the Instagram account using the handle "@LBProtest," which posts information relating to ICE activity, including individual officers' identities. The subpoena "references 'Officer Safety/Doxing' and states that the information is sought 'pursuant to an official, criminal investigation regarding officer safety.'" The motion contends that the administrative subpoena violates the First Amendment and is not authorized by statute.

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

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2025.09.19 Order re Motion to Quash for @LBProtests - In re Subpoena Number FY25-ELC-0105

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ordered Meta not to comply with a DHS subpoena seeking the personal information of Instagram users behind the @LBProtest account, a user who has posted the names and photos of ICE agents. The court held that Meta must withhold the information "until the court decides on the subpoena's legality." J. Doe v. U.S. DHS, No. 3:25-MC-80286 (N.D. Cal.).

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

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2025.09.29 Office of the Attorney General - Ending Political Violence Against ICE

Attorney General Bondi issued a memo on ending political violence against ICE. The memo:

• "direct[s] the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the United States Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to immediately direct all necessary officers and agents to defend ICE facilities and personnel whenever and wherever they come under attack, including in Portland and Chicago";
• adds "[a]ll state and local law enforcement officers protecting ICE facilities and personnel" to a temporary ICE Protection Task Force;
• "direct[s] the Department's Office of Justice Programs and Community Oriented Policing Services to provide as soon as possible, consistent with existing statutory authority, grant funding and training and technical assistance support to the federal, state, and local law enforcement officers protecting ICE facilities and personnel"; and
• states that the "Department of Justice will arrest and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law every person who aids, abets, or conspires to commit these crimes [against ICE], whether through funding, coordination, planning, or other means."

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2025.11.24 Stipulation and Proposed Order - In re Subpoena Number FY25-ELC-0105

DHS stipulates that it has withdrawn a subpoena it issued to Meta seeking the identities of several anonymous Instagram users who posted about ICE raids in Los Angeles, such as posts identifying individual officers, under accounts including the @LBProtest and @Stopicenet handles.

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

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2026.01.23 Reported: ICE Making List of Anyone Who Films Them - Ken Klippenstein

Ken Klippenstein reports that DHS has directed immigration officers—including ICE and CBP—to collect identifying information on people who film immigration enforcement operations. That information is subjected to a “work-up,” including license-plate checks, social media searches, and criminal-history reviews, to identify the individuals involved. The goal is to compile an internal list of anti-ICE protesters, whom the Trump administration has characterized as domestic terrorists, and to assess whether those identified have outstanding warrants, lack status, or may be targets of possible law enforcement action.

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2026.01.26 Reported: The FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE, Patel says - NBC News

In an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, FBI Director Kash Patel shared that the FBI had opened an investigation into Signal group chats that Minnesota residents are using to track and share information about federal immigration agents’ movements and stated that "if [the information-sharing] leads to a break in the federal statute or a violation of some law, then we are going to arrest people." Patel did not specify which laws the FBI thought were violated, raising free-speech concerns among First Amendment experts.

Patel stated that he decided to open an investigation after Cam Higby, a right-wing media figure, claimed on social media that he had joined Signal groups from around Minneapolis and that the users were allegedly obstructing law enforcement.

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2026.02.10 Reported: ICE is cracking down on people who follow them in their cars - Reuters

Reuters reports that the administration has "more than double[d] the prosecution" of alleged offenses under 18 U.S.C. § 111, "a catch-all charge for anyone who 'forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes' with a federal officer conducting official duties" relative to the same period in 2024-2025. While the charges are not all related to immigration enforcement, Reuters reports that they "are part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to clamp down on ICE opponents, who they portray as rioters who pose threats to officers and undermine their efforts to arrest immigrants with criminal records."

Reuters also reports that, according to two ICE officials speaking anonymously, "ICE has been tracking the names of protestors in an internal database for several months," consistent with allegations made by plaintiffs in Tincher v. Noem and Hilton v. Noem. "The government database contains names, photos, actions that provoked suspicion, locations and license plates, the officials said, adding that the effort was intended to spot patterns that could lead to charges." Reuters reports that "[s]ome Minnesota residents say they believe they are becoming the subject of an intimidation campaign," noting several instances of ICE officers threatening individuals monitoring ICE activities and that "[o]ne ICE officer told Reuters they have led people following them back to their houses after running their license plates 'to freak them out.'"

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2026.02.13 Amended Complaint - Tincher v. Noem

Plaintiffs in Tincher v. Noem filed an amended complaint and dozens of new sworn statements from protestors in Minnesota that detail ICE agents' "threatening and retaliatory behavior." The complaint alleges, for example, that ICE is photographing protestors and "obtaining [their] home addresses by running their license plates through a law enforcement database and then engaging in further retaliatory and chilling conduct." One declarant described a DHS vehicle almost ramming into her vehicle, and an agent identifying her by name and stating her home address. Another declarant described an encounter where an "agent addressed [her] by name and told her that CBP had facial recognition technology and that his body camera was recording"; three days later, she "received an email notice that her Global Entry/TSA-Pre Check had been revoked." Tincher v. Noem, No. 0:25-cv-04669 (D. Minn.).

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

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2026.02.23 Complaint - Hilton v. Noem

Observers of immigration enforcement in Maine have filed a class action in federal court, alleging that DHS agents and the federal government have violated the First Amendment by retaliating against people observing federal officers or otherwise engaging in protected expression. The complaint seeks to certify a class of "[a]ll individuals who have exercised or will exercise their constitutional right to peacefully observe or record immigration enforcement operations conducted by Defendants in the District of Maine and whose biometric data or other personal information is or will be collected and maintained by Defendants because of that activity."

The lawsuit asks for declaratory and injunctive relief, specifically seeking an order barring Defendants from "engaging in the unconstitutional collection, maintenance, and dissemination of records based on First Amendment-protected activity and from threatening, harassing, and otherwise retaliating against Plaintiffs and other Class Members for exercising their First Amendment rights," as well as requiring the expungement of plaintiffs' records. Hilton v. Noem, 2:26-cv-00092, (D. Me.)

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**