Activists fight ICE by doxxing agency chief
The home address of the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been published online, along with other information intended to intimidate immigration officials, an individual involved in the effort told Straight Arrow News (SAN). The information was posted Monday on a dedicated website focusing on ICE’s activities in Massachusetts.
“ICE Director TODD M. LYONS is terrorizing Massachusetts,” the website says. “We will not stand for this anymore.”
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The individual behind the domain — self-identified as “Syl,” or “screw you Lyons” — said the website’s goal is to make ICE officers “feel the fear” of those targeted by the agency.
“Kidnapping people on their way to work, or out buying groceries,” the website says. “Stalking people on their own front porches. Leaving their kids behind on the street. The people you’re kidnapping aren’t the worst of the worst and you know it. We’re sick of it. We won’t live like this, Todd.”
The exposure of Lyons’ home address and other information that could be used to identify ICE agents and officials is part of a broader effort to combat controversial immigration enforcement tactics employed under President Donald Trump. Activists have also protested outside ICE facilities and campaigned to ban ICE officers from covering their faces and concealing their identities on immigration raids.
ICE officials say assaults against its officers have increased by 1,000% this year, although they have not provided evidence to back that claim.
Dallas attackOfficials pointed to an assault Wednesday on an ICE facility in Dallas as a further indication of dangers facing immigration officers. Two detainees were shot to death, and a third was critically wounded, before the gunman took his own life. No law enforcement officers were injured.
The gunman reportedly left behind ammunition labeled “ANTI-ICE,” and FBI Director Kash Patel said the message indicated an ideological motive.
“The obsessive attack on law enforcement, particularly ICE, must stop,” Vice President JD Vance wrote on X.
The website revealing Lyons’ address does not explicitly advocate violence toward ICE personnel.
However, in an interview with SAN, Syl said, “ICE agents should feel unsafe.”
Public records confirm that the address shown for Lyons is legitimate. SAN is not reporting either his address or the website’s URL to avoid facilitating harassment of either party.
An ICE spokesperson criticized the website and said that SAN, by reporting its existence, is “encouraging and amplifying the doxxing.”
“The vile rhetoric toward and doxxing of ICE officers is intolerable, and media outlets that choose to amplify this dangerous behavior and drive clicks to the sites should think twice about what they are promoting,” Emily Covington, assistant director of the ICE Office of Public Affairs, told SAN Thursday. “Just yesterday, we saw a sniper ruthlessly shoot up an ICE facility in Dallas, resulting in multiple injuries and fatalities, and this sick individual had been accessing ICE doxxing apps tracking the location of officers.”
“We have raised alarms over these types of apps and websites since day one, and this is not an ‘I told you so’ situation anyone should ever be in,” Covington said. “The violence must stop.”
What’s on the website?Syl provided SAN with a photograph taken outside of Lyons’ home that showed a vehicle in the front. A search of the license plate brings up Lyons name but shows the vehicle as registered to an address in Texas. Real estate records for the Texas home show Lyons as a previous owner.
Lyons joined ICE in 2007 and worked in Dallas until 2017. Since then, Lyons has worked for ICE out of Boston.
Alongside Lyons’ address are numerous photographs and videos of ICE officers conducting arrests in the state, as well as a screenshot of a recent headline stating that 78% of those arrested in Massachusetts by immigration officials since Trump’s return to office have no criminal convictions.
Also on the website is a list of 87 vehicles purportedly used by the agency. It shows vehicle makes, models and license plate numbers for both rented and personal vehicles, Syl told SAN.
Start your day with fact-based news.The list, described as a “partial dataset,” was collected by activists throughout Massachusetts. An expanded list will reportedly be made available for download in the future.
The website also identifies the names, addresses and telephone numbers for two hotels where ICE officers are said to be staying, including one near ICE’s Boston field office in Burlington, Massachusetts.
The field office, which is listed on the site as well, has been used to hold immigrants. Between Jan. 20 and the end of July, more than 2,700 immigrants were detained at the building.
‘A reckoning’Syl said the website will continue being updated with information about ICE for as long as possible. The website, according to Syl, was purposely hosted overseas in a country unlikely to cooperate with U.S. authorities.
“There will be a reckoning for this, in this life or the next,” the website says.
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