White House warns House Dem’s ICE QR code bill will cause ‘doxxing campaign’

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is firing again at a Democratic Bronx congressman who supplied residents a new-age approach to establish immigration enforcement brokers who obscure their identities with masks or the shortage of names on their uniforms, amid civil unrest throughout the nation.

Rep. Ritchie Torres, a Democrat, stated he’ll introduce the Fast Recognition Act subsequent week, which might require ICE and CBP brokers to put on uniforms with QR codes — the two-dimensional extension of bar codes that may hyperlink a concrete merchandise to a web site or info portal.

At sporting occasions or in eating places, they usually use QR codes to immediate clients to scan them and open internet pages to take part in competitions or entry menus. In Torres’ case, scanning the QR code on an officer’s uniform would supply the identify, badge quantity and the company the place she or he is employed.

The White Home stated Torres’ invoice would encourage a “large-scale doxxing marketing campaign” and encourage protesters to “method and intrude with regulation enforcement operations.”

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Gregory Bovino, chief patrol officer for the El Centro Sector and commander of Operation At Massive CA, marches with federal brokers to the Edward R. Roybal Federal Constructing in Los Angeles on August 14, 2025. (Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Occasions through Getty Photos)

“That is all as a result of Democrats wish to defend legal unlawful aliens,” spokeswoman Abigail Jackson instructed Fox Information Digital.

“This definitely can’t be a critical proposal,” she added.

The administration cited DHS knowledge displaying that ICE officers are going through a 1,300% improve in assaults due to Democrats’ “harmful and unfaithful smears.”

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Torres’ workplace, then again, was defiant when requested about such issues.

“There’s nothing the Trump administration fears greater than transparency and accountability,” Torres spokesman Benny Stanislawski instructed Fox Information Digital.

Torres additionally instructed Massive Apple retailer AMNewYork that the necessity is “pressing” to “unmask ICE not solely bodily but in addition digitally.”

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Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) attends the Jerusalem Submit New York convention on June 3, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Noam Galai/Getty Photos)

Whereas Torres instructed the newspaper he predicts some pushback from regulation enforcement, he stated scanning QR codes is safer than asking for an officer’s id.

He famous that almost all different businesses require officers to establish themselves to their positions, calling ICE a “systematically corrupt establishment,” including that he’ll oppose any future appropriation by Congress that funds ICE greater than $1.

A Democratic congressman from Detroit, who beforehand known as for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, upped the ante this week along with his personal effort to abolish ICE.

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Rep. Shri Thanedar stated the loss of life of Renee Good in an ICE-involved taking pictures proves that the company “can’t be reformed and should be abolished.”

Thanedar stated in a press release that since its creation in 2003, some authorized consultants have additionally argued that its duties could possibly be extra “equitably” fulfilled by different federal businesses.

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“If an company’s construction persistently produces hurt somewhat than justice, there is no such thing as a approach to reform it. We should essentially change the best way we method immigration,” Thanedar stated.

Fox Information Digital reached out to DHS for remark.