As an impression of Deja Vu. According to 404 Media, an American American has accidentally added to a private conversation between ICE members, the American immigration police and the people of other federal agencies. The involuntary impostor could, by SMS, follow the procedure that precedes the capture of an individual.
A situation reminiscent of the door signal, which dates from last March. In the same way, a media journalist The Atlantic was added by error to a highly confidential signal conversation. The latter had been able to follow the process directly behind the bombings in Yemen.
A collaboration rank system
Questioned by 404 Media, the person initially thought he was a victim of spam, until he receives official documents, all for SMS (a very little safe means of communication). The group, called “Mass Text”, brought together six members.
Therefore, he was able to consult the pre-interventions sheets with the name, the judicial history, the social security number and the individual’s driver’s license number to challenge. In the screenshots of the conversation provided in 404 Media, he was a manly convicted man of murder attempt. A federal criminal investigator then sends registration plates corresponding to the person
“Check these plates,” an ice agent replied. “Meanwhile, it has two vehicles.” Using a file provided by the DMV (service in charge of registering vehicles in a state of the United States), the members of the discussion will try to track the two target cars. But no camera can provide recent images.
“It is possible that it is always a linked direction. It could be of the family. The last name corresponds to that of the co -owner of one of its vehicles,” writes the ice agent. Agents end up identifying the potential address of the person sought. “I will ask someone to monitor and try to establish a life profile,” informs the ICE agent. Unfortunately, the person “in excess” had no access to the continuation of the discussion.
Ice, armed arm of the fight against immigration
This escape once again places federal forces in a shameful position. It reveals an ice mode in close collaboration with several institutions (federal researchers, DMV) and the monitoring process to request.
The ice is on the front line in Donald Trump’s fight against illegal immigration. The US president made him an absolute priority, evoking an “invasion of abroad criminals.”
He had made this fight the spearhead of his presidential program. On August 12, 2025, the United States Department of Internal Security wrote in a statement that had received 100,000 applications to reach the ice.
But ice is also very criticized by a large part of Americans for their actions, considered too radical. It is at the origin of thousands of eviction abroad, sometimes by mistake. The expulsion of several children, including an attack against cancer, had significantly caused the outrage of several NGOs.
Source: BFM TV
