Apple has honored a request from the U.S. Department of Justice to remove ICEBlock and similar apps from their store, reports Fox New. These apps allow individuals to alert illegal aliens about nearby sightings of ICE agents in their area.
President Donald Trump and his administration have railed against these apps for months, arguing that they pose a threat to ICE agents. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says that ICEBlock and similar apps have crossed a line.
In fact, FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X that the man, who shot at a Dallas ICE field office, had planned the attack for weeks using apps to track the presence of ICE agents.
Evidence shows that the shooter, Joshua Jahn, intended harm ICE agents, but he shot three detainees instead. At the time, it was reported that one detainee was killed and the other two were critically injured. Since then, one of the injured has also died.
Apple has since commented that the App Store was created to be “a safe and trusted place to discover apps” and that they have removed ICEBlock and similar apps after law enforcement said that they are a safety risk.
Ira Mehlman is media director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
"People are free to protest, but we don't need major corporations giving people access to the location of ICE agents, who are being assaulted," Mehlman tells AFN.
Mehlman says there has been a thousand-percent jump in assaults on ICE agents over the last several months.
"That is a startling figure, and part of it is due to the fact that you have these organized groups that are targeting them, and it's led to violence. We saw it in Dallas, where you had a gunman who killed 2 detainees. He was aiming to kill ICE agents," states Mehlman.
