According to a bombshell investigation first reported by Fox News Digital, anti-ICE activists across the country are running what amounts to a civilian intelligence-gathering operation targeting U.S. federal law enforcement, using military-grade surveillance techniques, encrypted communications, and a sprawling web of databases that store sensitive information on immigration officers.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that a leaked Signal group chat has exposed deep ties between Democrat officials, including Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and radical anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis.
The private messaging group, called “MN ICE Watch,” has allegedly been used to coordinate protests, issue marching orders, and even dox federal ICE agents during the ongoing protests and riots in Minneapolis.
Names of the group’s administrators were leaked after the group was infiltrated by conservative independent journalist Cam Higby and posted to X.
One of the admins of the group is Amanda Noelle Koehler, a prominent protest organizer and former campaign strategist for Walz.
Koehler, who goes by the code name “HAH” in the chat, is listed as one of the group’s admins.
The former Walz staffer has allegedly been actively involved in mobilizing volunteers to track and harass federal agents during “Operation Metro Surge,” the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration violations in the Twin Cities.
The chat also has local politician David Snyder listed as an admin and Minnesota State Senate candidate Anita Smithson as a “dispatcher.”
According to Fox News, at least 200 anti-ICE organizations are now operating a coordinated human-intelligence (HUMINT) collection system across the country.
Data collected includes:
License plate numbers
Geolocation coordinates
Timestamps
Uniform descriptions
Photographs
Behavioral patterns
Names, phone numbers, and email addresses of federal agents
That data is funneled into at least 13 databases, operating through 18 regional hubs, mostly in Democrat-controlled states and cities.
Retired U.S. Army Green Beret Eric Schwalm, who used the SALUTE framework during combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, reviewed the materials uncovered by Fox News, and was stunned.
“This is mind-blowing,” Schwalm said. “We have an entire nation of collectors against our country’s law enforcement. It’s extremely dangerous.”
He added that if insurgents in Iraq had run operations this sophisticated, “we couldn’t have stayed past 2007.”
More from Fox News:
A Fox News Digital investigation has uncovered that these national operations feed data about the movements of law enforcement and immigration authorities into at least 13 sophisticated databases.
The network operates through at least 18 hubs nationwide in largely Democratic… pic.twitter.com/qKEO1AzH33
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 5, 2026
The network is funded by Democratic-aligned dark-money groups and organizations, some with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
Recruiters are sharing the “Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla,” a Marxist manifesto that suggests using “lethal weapons” and “street tactics” to wage… pic.twitter.com/ZbzGYD5YjL
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 5, 2026
Retired Green Beret Eric Schwalm warns this level of coordination mirrors a foreign insurgency designed to create a “narrative nightmare.”
Schwalm noted that if resistance forces had used this level of surveillance in Iraq, U.S. forces could not have sustained their presence. pic.twitter.com/PG4n6y2Wbb
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 5, 2026
While organizers claim they are providing “accountability,” federal authorities warn these activities potentially violate laws against stalking and obstruction.
Threatening or resisting federal agents are felonies, and the line between activism and illegal surveillance is now a… pic.twitter.com/9MfBtjKKHT
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 5, 2026
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