Have ICE agents or their families reported threats or violence after being doxxed?
Executive summary
DHS and ICE say yes: multiple federal statements and case filings show ICE agents and their families have been doxxed and then threatened or harassed, including explicit death threats, livestreamed stalking to a home, and arrests for doxxing-related conduct [1] [2] [3]. Independent reporting and cybersecurity outlets confirm large data dumps and public posting of agent PII, though some metrics cited by DHS (percent increases in assaults and threats) are reported by officials and criticized as unsubstantiated in other coverage [4] [5].
1. The official picture: DHS and ICE describe doxxing followed by threats and violence
Department of Homeland Security releases and ICE statements document specific incidents in which officers’ personal information was published and family members received violent messages, including an example of a Facebook death-threat sent to an agent’s spouse, and claim that families have had bounties placed on them and received threats after being identified [1] [5]. DHS also reports flyers and posts circulating with officers’ names, home addresses, and photos, and highlights prosecutions tied to doxxing—most notably the arrest of Gregory John Curcio in a case involving publication of an ICE attorney’s personal data and a federal grand-jury indictment of three women accused of livestreaming an agent’s home address [1] [3] [2].
2. Documented law‑enforcement responses and prosecutions
Federal prosecutors and ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility have pursued criminal cases where doxxing led to harassment or stalking: Curcio’s arrest and the indictment of three people for livestreaming and posting an ICE agent’s home address are cited as concrete legal responses to doxxing and related threats [2] [1]. DHS officials have reiterated that doxxing and threats will be prosecuted and have created reporting channels for officers to report harassment [1].
3. The role of public lists, leaks and cyber releases
Activist-run sites and alleged whistleblower leaks—such as the ICE List and reported dumps of thousands of DHS/ICE employee names—have been documented as mechanisms that put personnel PII in public view; cybersecurity reporting also describes hacker groups posting hundreds of agent records to Telegram channels, showing that both activist publication and criminal hacking have exposed officers’ data [6] [4] [7]. DHS has pointed to these data flows as sources of increased targeting of officers and their families [6] [7].
4. Numbers and rhetoric: large percentage increases claimed, contested in coverage
DHS and ICE releases quote eye‑popping percentage increases—claims of 1,000%–1,300% rises in assaults and 8,000% increases in death threats—that are used to frame the scale of danger to agents and families [1] [8] [5]. At least one cybersecurity outlet characterized some DHS figures as “unsubstantiated,” highlighting a media debate over the accuracy or context of those metrics even as the underlying incidents and prosecutions are independently documented [4].
5. Context, counterviews and limitations in the record
Reporting from the New York Times and other outlets places the broader controversy—use of force, public protest, and heightened rhetoric—into context, noting how heated political debate about ICE’s tactics feeds public anger and may drive adversarial actions toward agents but also raises questions about how officials interpret authority and threats on the ground [9]. The sources provided document specific doxxing-and-threat incidents and prosecutions, but do not supply independent, uniformly verified nationwide datasets tying every claimed percentage increase directly to doxxing episodes; where such aggregate figures appear, they originate in DHS/ICE statements and have been disputed by at least one outside cybersecurity report [4] [5].
6. Bottom line
There is clear, source-backed evidence that ICE agents and some family members have been doxxed and subsequently received threats, harassment, or stalking behavior, and federal authorities have investigated and prosecuted several such incidents [1] [3] [2]. Claims about the precise scale of assaults and threat increases rely on DHS/ICE statistics that have been repeated widely and criticized in some reporting as unverified; the documented case law and arrests, however, confirm that doxxing has in multiple instances been followed by real-world threats or harassment against officers and their families [2] [4].