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McClatchy Washington Bureau
McClatchy Washington Bureau
National
Tim Johnson

Trump foes move toward public shaming even of low-level officials

WASHINGTON _ The public shaming of high-level, widely known Trump administration officials has expanded to the divulging of personal information about rank-and-file government employees who are carrying out President Donald Trump's least popular policies.

Twice in the past week, activists have posted information on employees of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that carried out Trump's policy that required children to be separated from their parents who were arrested for crossing the U.S. border illegally. Amid national bipartisan outrage, Trump abruptly reversed course last week.

Sam Lavigne, an adjunct professor at New York University, last Tuesday posted data on 1,595 ICE employees that he scraped off of profiles on LinkedIn, a career networking platform. Lavigne posted the material on GitHub, a hosting platform popular with software developers.

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