Investing.com- Apple Inc (Nasdaq: AAPL) announced Thursday night that Iceblock and other applications of its app store will be used to report anonymously and anonymously reporting agents of the US immigration and customs control service.
The measure occurred after increasing pressure on Apple by Attorney General Pam Bondi. The controversy around ICE tracking applications increased after a deadly shooting at an ICE installation in Dallas, Texas, last month.
Fox Business was the first to inform about this development, citing statements by Bondi and Apple.
Bondi told Fox that Iceblock – the most popular of ICE tracking applications – put government agents at risk, and that violence against order forces was “intolerable.”
Apple confirmed that Iceblock and other similar applications had eliminated.
At the beginning of his second term, US President Donald Trump launched one of the most aggressive immigration control campaigns in recent history. Trump increased ICE financing, tightened the immigration rules and prioritized the mass arrest and deportation of thousands of people.
But the measure has generated criticism, especially for the treatment of detainees and arrests of people without a criminal record. Protests against Trump’s immigration policies have emerged throughout the country, more recently in Chicago and Portland.
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