ICERAID, a “crypto fascist” site, pays snitches

ICERAID has found an audience of paranoid right-wing MAGA fans and has been promoted across various far-right news outlets such as Infowars, the Matt Gaetz Show, and Gateway Pundit.

It’s stated focus is on deporting “criminal illegal aliens,” and its name harks to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). ICERAID even claims it will reward undocumented immigrants for handing themselves in to the app, presumably with the project’s token.

Users on X have described ICERAID as “crypto-fascism,” and “straight out of nazi Germany,” while crypto journalist L0la L33tz described it as “the stasi on solana,” a reference to East Germany’s secret police.

ICERAID’s tracker has a pitiful five submissions of supposed criminal activity, one of which is just a screenshot of the Daily Mail.

ICERAID claims it isn’t political or a government agency, despite being named after one. However, The Rage reports that Meyers claimed he was discussing the project with the White House.

Meyers has faced numerous legal disciplinary actions in the past. He was banned from broker-dealer activities by the Financial Regulatory Authority after he misappropriated at least $700,000 in investor funds. The Rage also found that investors of ICERAID’s token presale are already asking for refunds.

Snitching to ICE has become an increasingly common practice under Donald Trump’s second term, with groups like Betar claiming to maintain lists of activists they hope are deported that it is sharing with ICE. Rumeysa Öztürk, who was recently detained by ICE agents after writing a pro-Palestine op-ed in a student newspaper, was apparently included on Betar’s list.

Marco Rubio, the current United States Secretary of State, has bragged about cancelling hundreds of student visas and apparently intends to continue this practice.

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