The ICE List's Biggest Update yet
We have had a busy year fighting ICE, and the last three weeks have changed what the ICE List is. Not the parts that matter to the regime: it is still the largest database on immigration enforcement in the world, still free to everyone, still scaring the crap out of them. What has changed is the tools, and who holds them.
Until now the ICE List ran on an internal team and a network of volunteers. We added ways for the public to help, but they stayed narrow. Not anymore. The ICE List is now your database too, with every addition verified by the team before it reaches the public site.
The ICE List Blog
This is the last ICE List update you will get through Crust News. Everything after this goes out on the ICE List blog, so if you want to keep hearing from us, that is where to sign up.
Both the ICE List wiki and the ICE Watch app come under attack regularly, and when one goes down you have no way of knowing whether it is an outage or the end. The blog runs separately. Announcements land there first, the online status of our tools is displayed constantly, and the essentials live there too: know your rights guides, the facts on how enforcement operates.
For supporters of the ICE List, subscribing to the blog is essential, and won't clog up your email inbox, as announcements will be few and far between.
Tinder for Identifying ICE
This is the one tool you will likely be aware of, and was the start of our attempts to put the tools into your hands too. We took inspiration from dating apps like Tinder and created a web app that would allow you to swipe through agents in your area. This has successfully led to at least one positive identification, with hundreds more tips remaining under review.
The news on this that you may be unaware of, is that you can download it for Android through the website. Beyond that, it is now the home of the remaining tools we are announcing, with the tools working together to enhance each other.
We will build the largest video database on ICE, and have already started
Enforcement footage disappears. Accounts get banned, posts come down, platforms fold the moment they are leaned on by Trump's regime, and the evidence goes with them. That is not bad luck, it is an active attempt to hide everything going on in the USA. So we stopped trusting the platforms to hold the record and started pulling it off them.
In the short time since we launched our efforts the archive has gone from a few hundred clips to more than three thousand, sorted month by month across 2025 and 2026. Raids, detentions, checkpoint stops, courthouse arrests, agent encounters, community patrol recordings and even news coverage.
We recovered them from Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, Bluesky and elsewhere, and pulled every one onto infrastructure we control. A takedown on a platform no longer removes the record.
We thought, now that we have them, let's put them to use inside our app. Users can scroll through the videos pulled onto our sites, and use built-in tools to screenshot agents, add vehicle details including license plates, or otherwise help to catalogue the videos by adding data.
The Path: Turning ICE identification into a game
An archive is only worth what we know about each clip. Where did it happen, when, who is in it, which agency. Answering that three thousand times over is more than a small team can carry, so we built a way for anyone to help a few minutes at a time.
The Path is a game, using the same concept of Duolingo. You watch a real clip and answer one focused question: pin the location, read a plate, count the agents, capture a frame of a masked officer straight from the video, check a line of transcript against what was actually said. You earn points, build streaks, climb the ranks, and along the way you learn how enforcement actually works, from your rights at the door to the precedents that settled long ago whether following orders was ever a defense.
Nothing you submit publishes on its own, a person reviews everything before it enters the record.
Transcriptions
We ran the whole archive through a transcription tool, so what was said on camera is now searchable text in English and Spanish. The footage no longer sits off to one side either. Clips play on the incident pages themselves, lined up with the date, the place, the agencies and the people it was done to.
The transcripts are already recorded. What comes next is matching them, because the same agent tends to turn up at more than one incident, and what they say is one of the things that can tie those appearances together.
Machine transcription gets a lot wrong, so we are not relying on that alone. Sections of it go into the Path, where users check the text against the audio before it counts as accurate. Each of these need to then go through our normal confirmation process.
We need your help
There is a place in this for whatever you have.
Play the Path. Sift through footage slowly and add to the record, all while learning a bit more about the ins and outs of how ICE works, and the legality around it. With your help, we will get through thousands of ICE videos in no time.
Send us footage. A clip, a link, an account worth watching. We pull the video into the archive so it cannot be lost. Anonymous unless you choose otherwise, reviewed before anything appears.
Fund it. Servers, storage and people cost money, and there are no ads and no paywall holding this up. Donorbox cut us off, deciding they didn't want to facilitate a project that fought so directly with the Trump regime, which took more than 90% of our funding with it. If you're in a position to help keep us funded and online, consider contributing to the project.
Hundreds of videos are backed up every day, in a project built by people like you. Thank you for being one of them.