February 23, 2025
Based on the authorized grievance, the posts have been on an X account the place ICE prosecutor James Rodden tried to cover his identification.
Following a report from The Texas Observer, James Rodden, an assistant chief counsel with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as of no less than Feb. 19, is dealing with a authorized grievance accusing him of being a Nazi working throughout the company. The grievance requires an investigation and the suspension of his legislation license.
Based on CBS Information, the grievance was filed with the Workplace of Disciplinary Counsel in Washington, D.C., in addition to with the Workplace of Skilled Duty for ICE by J. Whitfield Larrabee, an lawyer in Massachusetts.
Per the grievance, “When the consultant of america in our immigration courts is motivated by bigotry, racism, xenophobia, anti-immigrant bias and hatred of immigrants, this significantly interferes with the administration of justice and undermines the integrity of our authorized system.”
Included within the grievance is the aforementioned article written by an investigative reporter, Steven Monacelli, whereby he alleges to have decided “primarily based on an awesome variety of biographical particulars matched by way of publicly obtainable paperwork, different social media exercise, and courtroom statement,” that Rhoden ran the Twitter (X) account “GlomarResponder.”
The grievance means that the lawsuit relies on an article from the Texas Observer, which claims that the posts it references are “straight” linked to Rodden’s efforts in advocating for the removing of susceptible immigrants, refugees, and political asylum seekers earlier than judges.
Per Monacelli’s reporting, the “GlomarResponder” account routinely espoused racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the posts additionally urged that the proprietor or operator of the account was an worker of ICE.
There are a variety of posts from the account that point out that the operator is a fascist, a white supremacist, and helps anti-immigrant violence.
One put up allegedly posted by Rodden contains one from January 2025 learn, “America is a White nation, based by Whites. We’re the historic and majority inhabitants, and it was based for our profit. Our nation ought to favor us.”
In September 2024, he allegedly posted that “all blacks are international to my individuals.”
As he wrote, “The proof that Rodden operates the GlomarResponder account contains an awesome variety of biographical particulars that GlomarResponder has shared over years that align with details about Rodden, together with employment historical past, areas lived, traits of a partner, involvement in a lawsuit towards the federal authorities, top and vogue preferences, penchants for particular phrasing, and a wide range of particular pursuits and hobbies.”
Monacelli indicated that the Texas Observer had verified these particulars independently, and when an ICE spokesperson responded through electronic mail, they declined to verify whether or not or not Rodden was nonetheless employed with ICE.
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement won’t touch upon the substance of this text pending additional investigation, to incorporate whether or not the proprietor of the referenced ‘X’ account is a present worker. However, ICE holds its workers to the very best requirements of professionalism and takes significantly all allegations of inappropriate conduct,” ICE wrote to the outlet.
Rodden, himself, has been dodgy, not responding to a number of requests for remark from the outlet, and when approached to inquire whether or not or not he had acquired the requests for remark, he instructed reporters to “name (his) press workplace.”
Based on Bjørn Ihler, the founder and CEO of Revontulet, a non-public counterterrorism intelligence and analysis firm, the variety of cross-referenced particulars concerning Rodden and the small print shared on the “GlomarResponder” account are unlikely to be coincidental.
“We requested two of our analysts with greater than 20 years of mixed expertise in open-source intelligence to overview the identification,” Ihler stated. “They discovered it to be thorough, well-supported, and worthy of public consideration. They agree that the proof linking James Rodden to the net accounts in query is robust, with important biographical consistencies spanning over a decade…The depth of the investigation leaves little room for doubt.”
Cyrus Mehta, a New York-based immigration lawyer with greater than 30 years within the subject, informed the Texas Observer that the views that have been allegedly espoused by Rodden would represent a violation of ethics.
“A authorities lawyer who vilifies those who he opposes in court docket, and places that out below the radar, would clearly be partaking in conduct that’s prejudicial to the administration of justice,” Mehta stated.
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