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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Trump team threatens to prosecute CNN over reporting on Ice-tracking app

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Donald Trump walks off the stage during a break in the CNN presidential debate in Atlanta last year. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Donald Trump and administration officials have threatened CNN over what they said was its promotion of a new app that allows users to track and try to avoid Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents.

Speaking to reporters in Florida on a trip to visit a new Ice detention center in Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”, the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, said her department and the Department of Justice were looking at prosecuting CNN over its reporting on the app, called IceBlock.

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