A senior ICE official says the Trump administration used the shadowy, anti-Palestine website Canary Mission to find students to target for deportation
According to unsealed court documents, the Trump administration relied on an anti-Palestinian doxxing site to identify student protesters to target.
The testimony came from Peter Hatch, a senior official with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations during a Boston court case challenging Trump’s deportation policy.
According to Hatch, the Department of Homeland Security developed a “tiger team” of intelligence analysts to compile files on about 100 foreign students and scholars. Information on almost all of those students was listed on the pro-Israel doxxing website Canary Mission, which has targeted student activists for years.
Hatch says the team was necessary because they were instructed to review files on the thousands of students that have been assembled by Canary Mission.
“A normal unit or section or group of analysts operating in a normal organizational construct couldn’t handle that workload,” explained Hatch.
“Many of the names or even most of the names came from that website, but we were getting names and leads from many different websites,” he continued. “We received information on the same protesters from multiple sources, but Canary Mission was the most inclusive. The lists came in from all different directions.”
In March, the New York Times published an article on the “shadowy group”, after Canary Mission unveiled a list of “foreign nationals” in response to the Trump administration’s executive order on combating antisemitism. (more...)
ICE official: We used Canary Mission to find students to target for deportation
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