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Warning: Do Not Use Ring Cameras
Amazon’s Ring cameras are integrated into U.S. law-enforcement
workflows. Police agencies can request footage directly from Ring users,
allowing private home surveillance video to be shared with law
enforcement.
In 2025, Ring partnered with Flock Safety, further linking
consumer cameras to nationwide law-enforcement surveillance platforms.
Civil-liberties groups warn this expands surveillance with
limited transparency or oversight. ICE List strongly recommends against
purchasing or using Ring cameras.
U.S. Border Patrol agent identified through public reporting and
FOIA-linked records as participating in an interior immigration
enforcement operation in the Chicago metropolitan area, including the
October 31, 2025 Evanston incident involving the assault of a handcuffed
individual following a vehicle crash.
In the news
Recent ICE-related reporting from external news organisations.
2025-11-18:Maryland bill would ban local 287(g) agreements statewide
— Del. Nicole Williams plans to reintroduce a bill to prohibit 287(g)
agreements in Maryland, with new backing from the state Senate
president, signaling growing political resistance to local ICE
partnerships.
2025-11-18:Lawsuit over conditions at California City Detention Facility
— Seven people detained at California’s largest immigration detention
facility filed a federal lawsuit describing sewage bubbling up from
drains, lack of medical care, frigid cells, and people forced to rewrap
open wounds with dirty bandages at the privately run California City
Detention Facility.
2025-11-18:Lawsuit targets conditions at Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago
— People detained at Broadview allege prolonged confinement in freezing
holding cells, sleep deprivation, and denial of basic medical care,
turning the suburban processing center into a site of chronic abuse for
those in ICE custody.
2025-11-18:Bucks County sheriff who joined 287(g) program voted out of office
— Voters removed the sheriff who signed Bucks County into ICE’s 287(g)
program after the agreement became the central issue of the race; the
sheriff-elect has vowed to end the partnership immediately.
2025-11-06: [shots, 7 holes': Border Patrol supervisor appeared to brag about shooting woman]
— A Border Patrol supervisor who shot a woman after a crash in Chicago
allegedly texted “5 shots, 7 holes,” and a judge is now examining
whether federal agents mishandled key evidence by releasing his SUV
before defense experts could inspect it.
ICE agents, including Moore, Arian S.,
fatally shot Silverio Villegas González during an immigration
enforcement operation in a residential area outside Chicago. ICE claimed
the shooting was justified by a vehicle-related threat, but body-worn
camera footage, witness accounts, and independent reporting have raised
serious questions about the accuracy of the official narrative.
Some agents documented in photos, videos, or incident reports have
not yet been identified by name.
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public to help recognise individuals based on uniforms, context, or
other verifiable details.
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documentation.
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established fact.
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Volunteer guide
Orientation for new volunteers, from research tasks to safety and OPSEC basics.
Deportation agents
Overview of ICE ERO officers, how we document them, and how to read agent pages.
State directory
Browse state-specific portals documenting facilities, incidents, agents, and 287(g) agreements.
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Contributors are encouraged to prioritise accuracy over speed.
US federal contractor hired white supremacist leader for wildfire relief
Ian Michael Elliott of neofascist Patriot Front worked ‘crisis relief missions’ funded by Department of Agriculture
A
federal security contractor that has been awarded millions of dollars
by the Department of Agriculture hired a prominent white nationalist
leader to work on its patrols last year.
Ian
Michael Elliott, a longstanding senior figure in the neofascist group
Patriot Front, was part of “crisis relief missions” undertaken on the US
west coast by Knight Division Tactical, according to an image shared on
LinkedIn in September by one of the company’s executives.
Elliott
is shown posing alongside other people as he helps hold up a flag with
the contractor’s logo on it. “Stellar company, sharp agents, quality
work!” he would later write, in a five-star review posted on Knight
Division Tactical’s Google Maps page.
Ian
Elliott (front row, third from right) poses for a picture alongside
other workers for federal security contractor Knight Division Tactical. Photograph: LinkedIn
A Google Maps review of Knight Division Tactical by Ian Elliott, a senior Patriot Front figure. Photograph: Google Maps
Knight
Division Tactical did not respond to multiple requests for comment,
though the company executive deleted his LinkedIn post showing Elliott
after the Guardian reached out.
Elliott has long been a senior figure in Patriot Front, which researchers have identified as responsible for producing the majority of white supremacist propaganda in the US.
The group, which markets itself to disillusioned white men, has been likened to a “white nationalist pyramid scheme”. In 2023, five of its members were convicted over a plot to start a riot at a gay pride event.
A
still from a video posted on Telegram by Patriot Front shows a masked
Ian Elliott, identifiable by his upper facial features and visible neck
tattoo, standing behind the group’s founder, Thomas Rousseau, at the
March for Life in Washington DC on 23 January. Photograph: Telegram
Patriot Front is perhaps best known for organizing militaristicwhitenationalist
marches through US cities, with nearly all of the participants hiding
their faces. After a March in Louisville, Kentucky, last year, Courier
Journal columnist Joseph Gerth called them “masked cowards” who “despise anyone who believes in an inclusive society”.
Earlier this month, Patriot Front members were present
at the National Mall in Washington DC during the annual anti-abortion
March for Life, where JD Vance spoke. Video posted by the group on
Telegram shows that Elliott, who frequently serves as the bodyguard of
the Patriot Front founder Thomas Rousseau, was among them.
Last year, Nashville’s NewsChannel 5 revealed
that Elliott is one of the leaders of efforts by Patriot Front to
develop a 122-acre (49-hectare) compound near Tellico Plains, Tennessee,
where white nationalists receive combat training in preparation for
what they believe is a coming race war.
“They’re
kind of an entry portal, a place that seeks to recruit young,
disillusioned white men who are interested in mixed martial arts,
interested in fighting, interested in the idea of saving western
civilization,” said Jon Lewis, a research fellow at the program on
extremism at George Washington University who studies US white
supremacist movements.
He added that Patriot
Front is one of several groups that has contributed to “the
mainstreaming of fringe concepts that have helped radicalize young men,
like the ‘great replacement’ theory, something now echoed by figures close to the White House like Stephen Miller and Elon Musk”.
Elliott also leads Patria Gloria, a white nationalist grappling team affiliated
with Patriot Front, and the neo-Nazi active clubs movement – Telegram
posts show that Patria Gloria invited several active clubs to
participate in training at the Tellico Plains compound last spring.
Experts have warned
that active clubs make up a decentralized network of combat-ready white
nationalist cells, and the Southern Poverty Law Center reported last
year that Patriot Front secretly controls
about a dozen of them; video posted on Patria Gloria’s Telegram channel
shows that Elliott represented Patriot Front at a tournament hosted by
the Southern California Active Club last year.
Recently, a Russian street fighting promoter, whose ties to US white nationalists and active clubs the Guardian revealed last October, posted to Instagram that Elliott is joining its stable of fighters under the alias Norman.
Images posted on Telegram show Elliott training fellow white nationalists at Patriot Front’s Tennessee compound. CNN reported
last month that the building where Elliott held the training has been
put up for sale, though Patriot Front intends to move forward with its
plans to build out a large compound on surrounding land.
Elliott did not reply to a request for comment via Telegram. The app shows a message sent to his account was viewed.
Patriot Front member Ian Elliott leading grappling training for fellow white nationalists. Photograph: Telegram
Elliott leading grappling training. Photograph: Telegram
How a prominent white supremacist leader came to work for a federal security contractor is unclear.
“It’s
not that surprising that there are white supremacists getting hired by
government contractors,” said Lewis. “When officials are flooding the
zone with the most racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, antisemitic and
Islamophobic messages – take your pick – it’s going to embolden
groups like Patriot Front. It’s going to tell them: ‘You have an ally in
the White House, you have an ally in the Department of Justice.’”
State
records show that, in 2023, the company was incorporated in Wyoming, a
popular location for business registrations because there is no state
income tax. It subsequently established branches in several other states
and, according to its website, maintains offices in College Station,
Texas.
Knight Division Tactical recruits
heavily on social media, especially Instagram, where it has amassed
60,000 followers and frequently shares stylized memes promising
potential recruits lucrative assignments in exotic locales.
Knight Division Tactical claims to have, or have had, multiple international ‘PMC’ (private military company) ‘missions’. Photograph: Instagram
The
company has encouraged people in France and Switzerland to apply for
work, advertising that successful applicants can earn up to $1,000 a
day. Photograph: Instagram
Knight Division Tactical has in recent months claimed to have upcoming ‘missions’ in Mongolia and Nigeria. Photograph: Instagram
For
example, the company has in recent months claimed to have upcoming
“missions” in Mongolia and Nigeria and has encouraged people in France
and Switzerland to apply for work, advertising that successful
applicants can earn up to $1,000 a day.
Meanwhile, federal procurement records
show the company’s sole government contracting activity in the US has
been providing unarmed security and patrol services for the US Forest
Service, the subagency of the Department of Agriculture that oversees
the country’s national forests and grasslands.
Knight Division Tactical was awarded $1.8m in contracts by the agency in the 2024 fiscal year and $2.1m in 2025.
Among
them were two contracts around the time that one of the company’s
executives posted the image of Elliott as part of its crew on LinkedIn.
The
first, valued at $350,275.48, was for security services in Eureka,
California, from 17 July to 8 August 2025. The second, valued at
$681.230.50, was also for security services in the area from 28 August
to 16 October.
In videos posted on Knight
Division Tactical’s social media pages, co-founder and chief executive
officer Michael Schulz has stated the company performs background checks
on applicants early in the recruitment process. (Elliott’s involvement
with Patriot Front and other white nationalist groups can be uncovered
with a basic Google search.)
“Companies
contracted by the US Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service manage
their own hiring, background checks and oversight of personnel,
independent of the agency,” said a spokesperson for the agency in a
statement.
In addition to heavily recruiting
online, Knight Division Tactical and its leadership also frequently post
about conservative social issues and their professed Orthodox Christian
faith. “We are elite Private Security Contractors,” wrote Schulz in a
2024 Facebook post. “We uphold the highest order of Christian virtues.”
The
company’s logo is a double-headed eagle, one of the most prominent
Orthodox symbols dating to the Byzantine empire. In a 2024 Instagram
post, Schulz said the company encourages contractors to participate in
prayer and scripture studies together.
In
November, co-founder and chief operating officer Matthew McCalla shared a
social media post extolling historical Orthodox leaders who oversaw the
killing of Muslim combatants in wartime.
One
of Knight Division Tactical’s co-founders shares a meme venerating
historical Orthodox figures who fought Muslim states in wartime. Photograph: Instagram
In
addition, Schulz is listed on incorporation records as the director of a
traditionalist men’s Christian organization called the Guild of
Gentlemen that claims to “restore European civilization and the cultures
within it”.
On its website, the guild blames
feminism for the “destruction of women” and refers to the concepts of
“racism” and “transgenderism” as “evil Marxist talking points”.
The site says the group held a conference in Dallas in 2024 and that Knight Division Tactical provided security for the event.
A screenshot from the Guild of Gentlemen website. Photograph: Obtained by the Guardian
In an August 2025 podcast interview,
Schulz and McCalla also claimed their company was developing a
proprietary “crisis prediction and threat prediction technology” that
can anticipate forest fires, hurricanes and terrorist attacks using
unspecified data and information models.
Knight Division Tactical launches a Discord server that it says is a ‘pre-cursor to a major technology’. Photograph: Instagram/Discord
Earlier
this month, the company said on Instagram that it was “launching a
pre-cursor to a major new technology”. For the time being, it added,
that precursor was a server on the Discord app that costs $49.99 per
month.
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But people are like... How could he hold that opinion, unless he watched it?
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As
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the halftime show yall were supposed to be boycotting?????"
