Activists have used Signal chats and informal tracking methods to monitor ICE activity; federal investigations are underway

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Anti-ICE ‘digital Minutemen’ use military-grade surveillance tactics against feds
Fox News Digital uncovers a shadow network of anti-ICE scouts tracking law enforcement across 13 databases in a surveillance operation a retired Green Beret warns is ‘dangerous’

Early last week, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the bureau is investigating the use of the encrypted Signal messaging platform by “ICE Watch” activists to track and block federal immigration enforcement.

Just days later, Jill Garvey, co-founder of a group called “States at the Core,” logged into a Zoom webinar to train a new crop of “rapid responders” on a military-grade intelligence gathering method called “SALUTE.” An acronym for Size, Activity, Location, Uniform, Time, Equipment, SALUTE is a mnemonic device that typically instructs soldiers how to systematically track details about enemies. Garvey framed the work as operational surveillance against agents she had called “mercenaries” in an interview days earlier.

“We are all ICE Watch!” declared Garvey, whose group is funded by the Hopewell Fund, a dark-money organization aligned with the Democratic Party. She added a boast that she’s taught 40,000 “rapid responders” this past year.

Garvey is just one of hundreds of anti-government operatives training agitators to interfere with federal law enforcement. Last Saturday, Manola De Los Santos, co-founder of the People’s Forum – a Marxist-Leninist organization funded by a China-based tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, with documented ties to the Chinese Communist Party – hosted an all-day “People’s Assembly for ICE Out of NY!” at the group’s headquarters on W. 37th Street.

“Adopt a corner!” leaders urged, instructing attendees to conduct surveillance tactics at fixed locations.

That same day, at about 4 p.m. ET, a user on one of 37 Signal chats operated by the “Seattle Area Rapid Response” network shared a copy of the “Mini-Manual Of The Urban Guerrilla,” a 67-page Marxist manifesto outlining the use of “mobile units,” “surprise,” “knowledge of the terrain,” “occupation,” “mobility and speed,” a “clandestine press,” “popular support” and “street tactics,” such as “constructing barricades,” “throwing bottles” and ultimately using lethal weapons, to wage a “revolutionary armed struggle” against the United States.

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Factcheck:

anti‑ICE activists in Minneapolis have organized on encrypted apps like Signal to monitor and confront federal officers, stopping vehicles and checking ID at makeshift checkpoints. Minneapolis activists have been documenting ICE movements and sharing information online, which has drawn FBI scrutiny of chat groups. There is no verified evidence from credible sources that there is a nationwide “military‑grade 13 database network” run by activists tracking agents in a coordinated intelligence operation. What is documented is street‑level tracking, crowd alerts and protests that are raising legal questions and tension with federal law enforcement, and the FBI is looking at encrypted communication use.