Antifa legal group and ACLU partner to protect militants behind ICE tracking site

Published September 29, 2025 5:00am ET



An antifa legal group, in partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union, is trying to prevent Meta from fulfilling a federal subpoena that would unmask the militants behind an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement surveillance site.

The Civil Liberties Defense Center, an Oregon law firm dedicated to “defending front-line activists,” filed a motion Tuesday to quash the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s subpoena seeking user data from Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, as part of a criminal investigation concerning “officer safety/doxing.”

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