The ICE List is a volunteer-built public record of U.S. immigration enforcement. It exists to document, in one place and by name, what the enforcement campaign is doing: the detention sites and field offices, the agents, the incidents, and the people who have died in custody or during operations.
It is three things working together:
- The Record is the database, a wiki at theicelist.org, where every facility, agent, incident and death is filed with its sources.
- ICE Watch is the tool, an app at watch.theicelist.org, where people on the ground report sightings and upload footage, and volunteers help sort and verify it.
- This blog is the front door: the plain-language explanation of what the record shows, the Know Your Rights material, and the ways you can help.
How the record is built
Everything is maintained by volunteers and held to one rule: nothing is invented. A person, a death, an incident is recorded only when it is named and sourced, and submissions are reviewed by a human before they are published. Where an official account is disputed, we document the dispute and link the evidence rather than assert a conclusion. The aim is a record that holds up: citable, sourced, and hard to wave away.
Why it is hardened
The ICE List and ICE Watch come under regular, sophisticated denial-of-service attacks. The record is mirrored and the infrastructure is hardened so that when a service is knocked offline it comes back and nothing is lost. If a page is briefly unreachable, it is far more often an attack in progress than a fault. The homepage carries a live status check of both services.
Nothing behind a paywall
The record, the app and this site are free to everyone. If you want to help, the best thing you can do is document what you see and share it. See how to help.