Video Exposes Nebraska Senate Candidate Ally Bragging of ICE Doxxing

On Thursday, an undercover video obtained by Townhall Media reveals a shocker: An ally of U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn, one Ruark Hotopp, is admitting to revealing the identity of an ICE agent, known as doxxing. Osborn is running as an independent. This won't help his efforts any.

Watch:

Here's the key excerpt:

“Are we talking about doxxing ICE agents? That’s a shame!” an unidentified individual says in the video.
“Just one,” Hotopp responds. “Well, the one that shot Renee Good,” the woman who was killed while attempting to disrupt ICE operations in Minneapolis. Townhall previously reported Good was shot in January after she quickly accelerated her vehicle and struck an ICE agent.
“He was a member of my union,” Hotopp said of the agent involved, “he was a duespayer in our local [union],” expressing contempt for him.
“We represented those guys for years and that guy in particular used to threaten to turn us all in for public corruption and then we got him on video shooting someone in the face,” Hotopp said with a smirk.
“So I was telling McCollister about it; he’s like, ‘Do you got that guy’s information?’ I said, ‘I absolutely do.’ He’s like, ‘Alright, I’ll take it from here, chief,’” Hotopp says in the video.

That sounds a lot like a threat.

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Hotopp appears to have ties to Osborn's campaign (although he occupies no official position with that campaign) although it's not clear what those ties might be.

Hotopp does not say McCollister’s first name during the exchange, but Osborn’s campaign communications director is Dan McCollister.
McCollister denied to Townhall Media any involvement in releasing information about the ICE agent.
"I had no involvement with the release of any personal information about any ICE agent. I was not in contact with any press about this issue,” McCollister said. “Dan Osborn had no knowledge of an individual's connection to the ICE agent or that an individual had his personal information."

That's as may be; but there's no reason that Ruark Hotopp shouldn't face the consequences of this act.

18 U.S.C. § 119 states:

In General.-Whoever knowingly makes restricted personal information about a covered person, or a member of the immediate family of that covered person, publicly available-
(1) with the intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite the commission of a crime of violence against that covered person, or a member of the immediate family of that covered person; or
(2) with the intent and knowledge that the restricted personal information will be used to threaten, intimidate, or facilitate the commission of a crime of violence against that covered person, or a member of the immediate family of that covered person,
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.

Section 1 would sure seem to apply in this case.

Here's the odd part about all this: During the Obama administration, ICE was conducting detentions and deportations, just as today; estimates vary, but it's probably around three million illegal aliens detained by ICE and deported between 2009 and 2016. That's a lot; not as many as would be ideal, but it was enough to earn President Obama the title of "Deporter in Chief." By contrast, under President George W. Bush, the number was about two million. So where were these people during the Obama administration, when ICE was carrying out its lawful duties just as it is today? Nobody seemed to care much then, but now they are protesting, rioting, attacking officers, and, as in this case, revealing their personal information, possibly exposing them and their families to violence.

That's because this isn't about illegal immigration, it's not about the border, and it's not about ICE. It's about Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Principals, not principles.

Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.

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