"The founder of the Eyes Up application, an app to share videos of federal agents arresting migrants, has reviewed hundreds of videos over the past few months. He said he's noticed some patterns in the cars federal agents are driving when they detain people across the country. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: So we're not only seeing a wide range of vehicles, but we're seeing older vehicles and we're seeing disguised vehicles."
"EISNER: The founder of the application asked NPR not to use his name. He fears retribution for making a platform that tracks activity of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. But he's not the only one who has noticed this kind of disguise. In a video that appears to be in Chicago, a car that appears to be used by a Border Patrol agent had a Mexican flag painted on the hood."
Videos and social media recordings show federal immigration agents covering their faces with masks and operating disguised vehicles during migrant arrests. Vehicles often lack agency markings and sometimes have no license plates or swapped plates. A platform that collects arrest videos identified patterns including older and disguised cars; roughly 5–10% of videos show vehicles without rear plates. Activists in multiple cities photographed agents leaving staging areas with different plates on successive days. In at least one Chicago clip a vehicle resembling a Border Patrol car had a Mexican flag painted on the hood. A platform founder expressed fear of retribution for tracking enforcement activity.
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