Targeted But Not Silenced: A Report on Government Surveillance and Retaliation Against Immigration Organizers in the United States

Recent years have seen increased reports that the U.S. government targets immigrant activists for immigration enforcement. 

A Take Back Tech Fellowship report Targeted But Not Silenced: A Report on Government Surveillance and Retaliation Against Immigration Organizers in the United States,” which exposes surveillance operations and retaliatory tactics against immigrant rights organizers and leaders in five NGOs. NPR’s All Things Considered has covered the report.  

The report uncovers ICE’s alarming tactics. For example:

1.       ICE monitored organizations’ social media and public events, 

2.       surveilled individual activists (sometimes with informants),

3.       banned people from visiting ICE facilities, and

4.       utilized detention, deportation, and initiation of removal proceedings against individuals. 

Professor Jennifer Koh and students at University of Washington School of Law and others worked on the report.  Grassroots Leadership, Comunidad Colectiva, La Resistencia, Migrant Justice, OCAD and Mijente, shared powerful stories and co-produced the report. 

KJ