Exclusive | Sen. Marsha Blackburn unveils bill to shield law enforcement from doxxing as Dems push to out ICE agents

Tennessee Republican Sen.Marsha Blackburn rolled out legislation Wednesday to make the doxxing of law enforcement officials illegal after multiple Democrats — including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — have pushed to identify Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carrying out the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts.Under the Protecting Law Enforcement from Doxxing Act, those who release the name of an officer “with the intent to obstruct a criminal investigation or immigration enforcement operation” could face up to five years behind bars and a fine.

“Blue city mayors are doing everything they can to obstruct the Trump administration’s efforts to deport criminal illegal aliens,” Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said in a statement. Her new bill is a direct response to Democratic Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell after it emerged that his office had been keeping track of engagement between ICE authorities and local officials.O’Connell has framed the effort as a transparency push.O’Connell’s team publicly released details of those interactions, including names of feds on a city website, before local officials removed some of the names.The mayor’s actions came against the backdrop of a massive ICE operation last month in partnership with the Tennessee Highway Patrol in which nearly 200 people were detained.

Of those detained, at least 95 have previous criminal convictions and 31 had reentered the US illegally, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).O’Connell had been a fierce critic of the operation — and even amplified a fundraiser for the families of people who had been swept up by the ICE operations.“Just last week, Nashville Mayor O’Connell and his office doxxed federal law enforcement officers after the Trump administration worked with Tennessee Highway Patrol to arrest a criminal illegal alien,” Blackburn said.“My Protecting Law Enforcement from Doxxing Act would make this illegal a...