A sniper opened fire on the Dallas ICE facility with shell casings inscribed with anti-ICE messages.
The Left just handed that same playbook to every city in America.
Now the man who built the NSA's surveillance architecture says what these radical leftist groups have assembled is something law enforcement has never faced before.
The Military Spy Tactic Anti-ICE Groups Are Using to Hunt Federal Agents
Stewart Baker spent decades at the highest levels of American national security — NSA general counsel under George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, then DHS assistant secretary for policy under George W. Bush.
Baker argued the Left has crossed into dangerous new territory.
These radical leftist groups aren't just showing up to disrupt ICE operations.
They're training civilians in a military intelligence method called "SALUTE" — Size, Activity, Location, Uniform, Time, Equipment — the same framework soldiers use to track enemy movements. They're assigning roles: recorder, supporter, monitor.
Whistles are being issued to send coded signals. Three blasts means ICE is operating nearby.
This is a counter-intelligence operation targeting American law enforcement officers in their own country.
The database they built proves it. An Irish radical named Dominick Skinner – operating out of the Netherlands – created a database called "ICE List" that now contains 5,397 confirmed and suspected ICE agents, complete with photos, home addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers. The entries doubled in the weeks after the FBI opened its investigation.
Encrypted Signal networks coordinating all of this span the entire country — at least 20 separate chats in Minnesota, 35 in Washington state, and WhatsApp alerts blanketing Rhode Island.
When independent journalist Cam Higby infiltrated those chats, he documented a 24/7 operation — mobile patrols circling neighborhoods, plate checkers running federal vehicles through a live database, and dispatchers directing teams toward agents in real time.
FBI Director Kash Patel opened an investigation immediately.
Why the Network Built to Dox ICE Agents Is Coming for Everyone
Baker told Fox News Digital that what these groups have built is "remarkably organized" — and the technology they're deploying is going to get people killed.
The hardware is cheap and doesn't require a computer science degree.
Radical leftist agitators are circulating tools like "OUI-SPY" and a database called "DeFlock" that detect hidden law enforcement cameras. An open-source app called WiGLE alerts the user when federal law enforcement Wi-Fi or Bluetooth signals are nearby.
Baker explained that technology has spent 30 years moving toward a world where law enforcement anonymity is impossible.
The result is that ICE agents are being hunted in their own country.
DHS reports a 1,300% increase in assaults on ICE officers since Trump took office, along with an 8,000% increase in death threats.
An HSI agent in Minneapolis had his finger bitten off during Operation Metro Surge. A sniper in Dallas fired into an ICE facility. Vehicles have been weaponized against agents over 180 times.
Baker didn't mince words: "There are people who are willing to use violence against agents, and that fear of violence is going to drive hair-trigger responses by the agents. It's a very dangerous situation."
The Left didn't build this to stop one operation. They built a national infrastructure — and when the FBI came after them, they accelerated. The database doubled in size. The chats kept running. That tells you everything about what this actually is.
The tools built to track federal agents can be pointed at anyone — your pastor, your county sheriff, the local Republican committeeman who cooperates with immigration enforcement. Baker said ICE agents are "there first" — meaning they're the test case, not the end game.
The database that started with agents' home addresses is a proof of concept. The Left knows it works, knows it scales, and knows the FBI investigation didn't stop them.
What they built to target people enforcing immigration law will be pointed at anyone they decide deserves it. That's not speculation. That's the next logical step — and it's the one Baker is warning about.
Sources:
- Peter Pinedo, "Organized and Technological: ICE Resistance Groups Posing Growing Danger, Warns Former Top NSA, DHS Official," Fox News, March 17, 2026.
- "FBI Investigates Alleged Coordinated Signal Groups Tracking Federal Agents," Fox News, January 27, 2026.
- "ICE Officers Face an 8,000% Increase in Death Threats Against Them and Their Families," Department of Homeland Security, January 26, 2026.
- "DHS Law Enforcement Experienced More Than 180 Vehicle Attacks Since President Trump Took Office," Department of Homeland Security, February 3, 2026.
- Susan Ferrechio, "Top Minnesota Democrat Says Allegations She Coordinates Anti-ICE Protests Are 'Not True,'" Washington Times, January 28, 2026.
- "Digital Vigilantes: How Anti-ICE Activists Are Deploying Military-Grade Surveillance to Challenge Federal Authorities," Internewscast Journal, February 5, 2026.
