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Thursday, March 12, 2026

Behind ICE List: How a DHS Whistleblower and Facial Recognition AI Turned the Surveillance State on Itself (EXCLUSIVE) - Migrant Insider

WASHINGTON — A week after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Nicole Good three times in her car on a snowy Minneapolis street, a Department of Homeland Security employee had seen enough.

The whistleblower gave Dominick Skinner, a 31-year-old Irish immigration activist living in the Netherlands, the personal information of roughly 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol personnel—2,000 frontline enforcement agents and 2,500 support staff. The leak, which Skinner received in mid-January, represents one of the largest breaches of federal law enforcement data in recent history.

“It is a sign that people aren’t happy within the U.S. government, clearly,” Skinner told me in an exclusive Q&A this week with Migrant Insider. “The shooting was the last straw for many people,” he added.

ICE List, which Skinner founded in June 2025 as mass deportation operations accelerated under the Trump administration’s second term, already had the names of 2,000 immigration enforcement personnel. The new leak more than tripled his database. The site uses facial recognition AI—trained on video footage of masked agents during raids—to unmask and identify federal officers, then cross-references the results with public databases and social media accounts.

Hours after Skinner announced plans to publish the new names, ICE List went dark.

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