Like a bad sequel nobody asked for, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents appear to be reliving Signalgate in their own incompetent way. According to screenshots and info obtained by 404 Media and shared Thursday, ICE agents allegedly added a random person with no law enforcement affiliation to a group chat by accident, breaking down a manhunt of an undocumented immigrant in real time.
“At first I thought it was just another series of spam messages like I get all the time from home improvement, car insurance, business loans, etc,” the civilian wrote in an online chat, obtained by the outlet. “Then I saw the rap sheet and license plate numbers and was like WTAF.”
The texts included unredacted information from an ICE “Field Operations Worksheet,” among other information that didn’t se