FBI investigated anti-ICE protesters after Trump demanded probe over TikTok video, whistleblower alleges举报人称，在特朗普要求调查TikTok视频后，FBI对反移民及海关执法局（ICE）抗议者展开了调查。
The FBI opened preliminary investigations targeting anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters in Southern California, a former FBI intelligence official alleged in a whistleblower complaint, adding that she believed the move violated the law and agency policy.
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The FBI opened preliminary investigations targeting anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters in Southern California, a former FBI intelligence official alleged in a whistleblower complaint, adding that she believed the move violated the law and agency policy.
The investigations were opened in early 2025 in the early weeks of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown following demands from President Donald Trump and other administration officials, according to the disclosure by Jill Fields, a former supervisory intelligence analyst in the FBI’s Los Angeles field office.
CNN reviewed the complaint, which was filed by lawyers representing Fields to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. CNN has reached out to the Department of Justice, FBI and White House about the disclosure.
In at least one instance, the FBI began preliminary investigations of protesters after the president demanded an investigation of people he saw in a TikTok video depicting demonstrators against ICE and Customs and Border Protection in Alhambra, California. The protesters were using bullhorns to warn neighbors about the presence of immigration-enforcement officers, Field’ disclosure said.
Following the February 2025 protest in Alhambra, an analyst who worked under Fields “informed her that the squad had been ordered to run pre‑assessment checks on the two to four anti‑ICE and CBP protesters in the video accused of impeding an immigration arrest, even though FBI policy prohibits opening investigations based solely on First Amendment‑protected activity, and the squad did not yet have evidence of a crime,” lawyers representing Fields said in a letter to senators.
The investigations came after FBI Director Kash Patel told top FBI leaders that the president “was angry about the incident, and he wanted those protesters investigated and arrested,” the letter said.
In a letter to Patel and Attorney General Todd Blanche, citing the whistleblower complaint, Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla questioned the Justice Department on how many investigations into protestors were currently active and whether Trump had directed other, similar investigations.
Massive crowds turn out at anti-ICE protests across the US
Fields’ whistleblower complaint disclosed two separate incidents in which she said White House officials demanded the FBI investigate and arrest anti-ICE protesters.
A separate incident weeks earlier sparked a similar focus on free speech, according to Fields, when then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove demanded the FBI investigate a group of anti-ICE protestors outside a federal building in California.
In both cases, Fields noted that First Amendment protections prohibited such investigations and potential charges unless other action beyond speech had taken place.
When she raised the issue with one superior, Fields says she was told it had to happen.
The former analyst said she was stripped of her team and lost support from FBI leadership in her Los Angeles office, pushing her to ultimately resign from the bureau.
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一名前联邦调查局情报官员在举报投诉中称，联邦调查局已对南加州的反移民和海关执法局抗议者展开初步调查，她还表示，她认为此举违反了法律和机构政策。
据 FBI 洛杉矶办事处前主管情报分析师吉尔·菲尔兹透露，这些调查是在 2025 年初，也就是特朗普政府开始严厉打击移民的最初几周内启动的，这是在唐纳德·特朗普总统和其他政府官员的要求下进行的。
CNN审阅了这份由菲尔兹的律师向参议院司法委员会提交的投诉。CNN已就此事联系了司法部、联邦调查局和白宫。
至少有一次，总统要求调查一段TikTok视频中出现的示威者，随后联邦调查局对示威者展开了初步调查。这段视频拍摄于加利福尼亚州阿尔罕布拉市，视频内容是示威者抗议美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）和海关与边境保护局（CBP）。菲尔德披露的信息显示，示威者当时正在使用扩音器警告邻居移民执法人员的出现。
2025 年 2 月在阿尔罕布拉发生的抗议活动之后，菲尔兹手下的一名分析师“告诉她，尽管联邦调查局的政策禁止仅基于受宪法第一修正案保护的活动展开调查，而且该小组当时还没有犯罪证据，但该小组还是奉命对视频中被指控妨碍移民逮捕的两到四名反 ICE 和 CBP 抗议者进行预评估检查，”代表菲尔兹的律师在给参议员的一封信中说。
信中说，此前联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔告诉联邦调查局高层领导，总统“对这起事件感到愤怒，他希望对这些抗议者进行调查和逮捕”，随后展开了调查。
民主党参议员亚历克斯·帕迪利亚在致帕特尔和司法部长托德·布兰奇的信中，援引举报人的投诉，质问司法部目前有多少起针对抗议者的调查正在进行，以及特朗普是否指示进行过其他类似的调查。
美国各地爆发大规模反移民及海关执法局（ICE）抗议活动。
菲尔兹的举报人投诉披露了两起独立事件，她说白宫官员要求联邦调查局调查并逮捕反移民及海关执法局的抗议者。
据菲尔兹称，几周前发生的另一起事件也引发了人们对言论自由的类似关注，当时代理副司法部长埃米尔·博韦要求联邦调查局调查一群在加利福尼亚州联邦大楼外进行反移民和海关执法局抗议的示威者。
菲尔兹指出，在这两种情况下，第一修正案的保护都禁止此类调查和潜在指控，除非发生了言论之外的其他行为。
菲尔兹说，当她向上级提出这个问题时，对方告诉她这件事必须发生。
这位前分析师表示，她的团队被撤换，洛杉矶办事处的联邦调查局领导层也对她失去了支持，最终迫使她从该局辞职。