Tech company Apple removed the icablock – the most popular app to track American immigration and customs enforcement agency – and a similar app from its app store, said after the contact by US President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday.
Iceblock app alerts users to ice agents in the area, allowing them to vacate migrants who can be arrested.
Reducing illegal immigration during Trump’s second term at the White House has been one of the central domestic policies. However, reports suggest that the Ice agent, often in masks using undivided VAN, includes permanent American inhabitants, visa holders and supporters in Palestinian advocacy.
‘Security risk’
The US Broadcast Channel Fox Business reported the removal of the app and cited the US Attorney General Palm Bandy, saying that the Department of Justice had approached the app to pull the app from the platform.
The administration of the US Department of Justice and Trump have said that the APS has put the officials in danger by raising the risk of attacks on ice agents.
Bandy said in his statement to Fox Business, “Iceblock is designed to put ice agents only to risk their work, and violence against law enforcement is an unbearable red line that cannot be crossed.”
In September, criticism killed two details after a shoot in an ice facility in Texas and injured another.
Officials said the shooter was targeting ice agents and was using a similar app in the leading days for the attack.
Apple said in an email, “We have removed a similar app from it and the app store, based on the information obtained from law enforcement about the security risk with ICBlock.”
Edited by: Wesley Dakri