Posted on 06/30/2025 8:08:56 AM PDT by DFG
Joshua Aaron has worked in and around the tech industry for around two decades. He built his first app — a blackjack game — at computer camp when he was 13.
His newest app is designed for a very different purpose: to let users alert people nearby to sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their area.
Aaron launched the platform, called ICEBlock, in early April after watching President Donald Trump’s administration begin its immigration crackdown. The White House’s immigration policies have sparked mass protests across the United States; a CNN poll in April showed 52% of Americans polled said Trump has gone too far in deporting undocumented immigrants.
ICEBlock currently has more than 20,000 users, many of whom are in Los Angeles, where controversial, large-scale deportation efforts have taken place.
“When I saw what was happening in this country, I wanted to do something to fight back,” Aaron told CNN, adding that the deportation efforts feel, to him, reminiscent of Nazi Germany. “We’re literally watching history repeat itself.”
ICEBlock is designed to be an “early warning system” for users when ICE is operating nearby, Aaron said. Users can add a pin on a map showing where they spotted agents — along with optional notes, like what officers were wearing or what kind of car they were driving. Other users within a five-mile radius will then receive a push alert notifying them of the sighting.
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Arrest his ass...............
“Fight back” against law enforcement?
What does that make this guy?
He wants to fight back against law enforcement? Sounds like he needs to be arrested. Well see how many illegal immigrants come to help him out.
Or flood the zone with thousands of false alerts.
Make the app sodding useless.
guess we need another app to report the location of illegals
Really.
See a bunch of illegals, hit the “alert” button to get them to leave.
I remember my history class when they taught us about how the Nazis rounded up the Jews and sent them to Israel.
Yeah, purty sure that violates the law.
Um, ‘Flood the Zone’ - sign up and start making [bogus] reports? This would not be illegal, would it?
I want him to do something too. Be locked up with Kelmar Abrego Garcia for a year.
re: “Make the app sodding useless.”
I may need a 2nd cellphone (a $15 a month plan) just to do this.
That reads like consciousness of guilt to me.
8 U.S. Code § 1324 - Bringing in and harboring certain aliens
Paging the DoJ.
See my reply #14.
Both!..................
I remember how all those Jews were flooding across the German border and then fought to stay.
I love when these people speak because they are SO IGNORANT.
He needs to be deported also.
Just overload the app with false ICE sightings.
UGH CNN is a disgusting cancer.
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