According to the Department of Homeland Security, simply videotaping raids conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is violence, and it’s doxing, and prosecutable. Also according to the DHS, ICE agents don’t need to fill out any paperwork about who they are targeting.
Additionally, according to DHS, elected officials need to provide prior notice to be allowed into ICE facilities to perform their congressionally mandated oversight duties, despite a law saying they need to do no such thing.
Taken together, it’s clear that DHS wants no record of ICE’s actions. And hey, redefining “violence” to include “recording ICE agents” helps Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem throw around comically large numbers. She’s now insisting that “our brave ICE law enforcement are now facing