A member of the House Judiciary Committee, Jamie Raskin from Maryland, has requested that the United States Department of Justice disclose every piece of correspondence it exchanged with Apple and Google concerning the removal of applications designed to report locations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel. In October, multiple such applications were taken down from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, preventing users from exchanging details on ICE officer sightings. According to Politico, Raskin reached out to Attorney General Pam Bondi about this matter and raised concerns regarding the department's application of force toward demonstrators amid enforcement of President Donald Trump's immigration directives.
"This initiative involving pressure and content suppression, which primarily affects individuals using apps to monitor ICE activities, represents a deliberate move to quiet opponents of this administration and conceal proof that could reveal official deceptions, such as the dystopian efforts to obscure the killings of Renee and Alex," Raskin stated in his letter to Bondi. The letter alludes to Renee Good and Alex Pretti, residents of Minneapolis who lost their lives in shootings carried out by ICE officers. Eyewitness accounts and video evidence in these distinct events refuted statements from government officials about the victims and the incidents themselves, reminiscent of aggressive encounters and misleading narratives during ICE operations in Chicago earlier in the year.