NY man sues DHS after agents track him over an email to ICE
Apparently, sending an email to a government official is now a high-stakes stealth mission where federal agents hunt citizens down across state lines.
Some guy named David Streever decided to send an email to the former head of ICE. Instead of doing what any normal bureaucracy does—like deleting it or sending an automated "thank you for your feedback" reply—the government went full Hollywood thriller.
Federal agents actually tracked Streever to his house. When he wasn't there, they didn't stop. They tracked him down to a hotel in another state and left him a physical, ominous warning notice telling him his email might have been illegal.
Unsurprisingly, Streever wasn't thrilled about being hunted across state lines over an outlook draft. Now he is suing the DHS for turning a simple email into a federal manhunt.
Using elite federal agents as a high-budget, manual spam filter is certainly one way to spend taxpayer dollars.
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