It’s a little bit unclear what the tracker will look like, but it’ll apparently become available in the next few weeks.
The Democrats have been largely accused of “doing nothing” in the face of the Trump administration’s unprecedented assault on American legal norms and public benefit programs. Indeed, according to some Democrats, doing nothing is the best course of action. Unfortunately for said Dems, the American people want political leaders who will, you know, lead, and do stuff, and defend them from the chaos currently unfolding throughout the federal government—and they see their elected officials’ inaction as a sign of weakness, not strength.
Well, some Democrats have made it known that, as Trump unleashes the unmitigated powers of the surveillance state on the American people, they are willing to make at least some small, token effort at doing something. One such Democrat is Rep. Rob Garcia, of California, who currently serves as the top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. This week, Garcia suggested that he would help create a “master ICE tracker” that is designed to document the actions being taken by the federal police force.
Garcia made the comments during a press conference in Los Angeles, where he was joined by the city’s mayor, Karen Bass.
“Over the course of the next couple of weeks, the Oversight Committee will be launching, on their website, a master ICE tracker where we’re gonna be essentially tracking every single instance that we can verify that the community will send us information on,” said Garcia.
