A pair of Texas undergrads created an online map tracking the movement of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — and the project is now getting failing grades from the feds.
Rice University freshmen Jack Vu and Abby Manuel insist they created ICE Map as an innocent push for “transparency.”
Users who visit the map can click on locations to see publicly reported enforcement activity and detention location data in one place.
Data comes from “right and left leaning” news sources, media feeds, public reports and databases.
Vu and Manuel, both 19, said they began their project at the $90,000-a-year private university in Houston after volunteering to teach English to a group of Guatemalan children.
“Week after week, I would hear of another family who left without a word. We made [the map] a few weeks later,” claimed Vu, who said he did not know or ask if the kids’ families were illegal immigrants.
“They couldn’t find any information, so we wanted to fill that void,” Manuel added.
But the Department of Homeland Security said this week the map, launched in June, endangers ICE agents’ lives and interferes with the enforcement of immigration law.
“It’s sad that any college student would devote their time, talent, and education to fight against the will of the American people by helping criminal aliens violate our nation’s laws,” a DHS spokesperson told The Post.
“We encourage Americans to visit our website WOW.DHS.GOV to see the criminals we are removing from their neighborhoods including murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members and terrorists.”
The agency said the map won’t get in the way of their goals.
“DHS will not be stopped or slowed down in its mission to make America safe again for every community. The good guys are winning.”
