WikiLeaks on Thursday published a database that it claims reveals personal information on more than 9,000 current and former Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees.
[Update: ICE says WikiLeaks publishing personal info on 9,243 employees ‘unconscionable’]
All of the information on the database was taken from the workers’ LinkedIn profiles and includes deportation officers, information technology workers, interns, legal assistants and others. WikiLeaks said the information was published for the purpose of “increasing transparency.”
“This information is an important public resource for understanding ICE programs and increasing accountability, especially in light of the extreme actions taken by ICE lately, such as the separation of children and parents at the U.S. border,” WikiLeaks wrote in its dataset description.
[Also read: ICE chief: ‘I don’t think Congress wants to fix’ family separation problem]
The publication of the information comes as increased public outrage emerged over the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy that created an increase in the number of families separated at the border.
