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Data of more than 41.000 DHS employees published in the United States

A group dedicated to leaking information published data on more than 41.000 employees of the United States Department of Homeland Security, including ICE…

--- The context --- The United States Department of Homeland Security, DHS, is central to the offensive against irregular migration ordered by President Donald Trump at the start of his second term, in January 2025, with an expansion of enforcement operations. --- The facts --- A nonprofit group dedicated to leaking information published data on more than 41.000 DHS employees, including officials linked to the immigration enforcement measures pushed by Trump. The release exposes the structure of the department. Distributed Denial of Secrets, DDOS, said it obtained the sensitive information from a hacktivist group known as the Department of Peace. That collective created Icepick, a tool designed to search for employee names, offices and assignments within the agencies. The Migration Policy Institute noted that DHS has increased arrests and deportations during recent months, surpassing the efforts of its predecessor, Joe Biden. According to that organization, DHS, including ICE, completed around 980.000 deportations during the first 18 months of the second term of Trump. --- The positions --- Maia Arson Crimew, an activist linked to the group, argued in a statement attributed to DDOS that the dataset is enormous in size and impact. In attributed paraphrase, she added that it reveals the distribution of functions and the organizational structure of the department, including ICE. Emma Best, a cofounder of DDOS, described the leak as extraordinary. Both assessments stress the scale of the material and its capacity to show how work is divided among the agencies that carry out United States immigration policy. --- What remains unknown --- It is not known what protection the exposed employees will receive or what consequences the release will have for their safety. It is also not known how the information was obtained or whether the agencies will review their internal controls. --- Unanswered questions --- What measures will DHS take to protect the more than 41.000 employees exposed? How did the Department of Peace obtain the information that later reached DDOS? Will there be consequences for those who released the data? --- EPM analysis --- The leak comes at the moment of greatest exposure for DHS and the federal immigration police ICE. Since January 2025, the measures of Trump have led to the detention and deportation of thousands of undocumented people, and the debate over the offensive now intersects with the personal risk of those who carry it out. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, publishing data on more than 41.000 employees turns a legitimate debate about immigration policy into a direct risk for concrete people and their families. Transparency about how a government acts does not need to expose the names, offices or assignments of the personnel who carry out the orders. The agencies must protect their people, review how the information leaked and account for the scale of the damage, without the seriousness of the leak hiding the underlying debate over detentions and deportations.
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