Fear of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids began to spread the day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated for the second time. Posts on social media and Reddit claimed that ICE had already been spotted in the Dallas neighborhood of Oak Cliff, where Latino immigrants began to settle in large numbers in the 1970s and have profoundly shaped the culture of the vibrant community.
That same Tuesday morning, an X account with over 17,000 followers named GlomarResponder made an ominous post. Yeah, Im in a courthouse wating [sic] on warrants, GlomarResponder wrote. Turns out theres a lot of bitch work to be done to make mass deportations happen. One day prior, GlomarResponder had posted that he Can confirm all of those, regarding a list of cities where ICE was expected to begin deportation operations the next day. May have a betting pool to see who can guess which one Im at on any particular day, based on the news, GlomarResponder wrote.
These were but the latest posts that GlomarResponder has made over the years that suggest the operator of the account is an ICE employee. GlomarResponder has also routinely expressed blatantly racist and anti-immigrant views. Through an extensive review of GlomarResponders X posts, publicly available documents, and other social media profiles and posts, the Texas Observer has identified the operator of GlomarResponder as James Jim Joseph Rodden, a 44-year-old who works as an assistant chief counsel for ICE in the Dallas area. Rodden represents the agency in immigration court hearings where judges decide whether an individual is removed from the country.
Since GlomarResponder was first created in 2012, the account has posted hateful, xenophobic, and pro-fascist content. America is a White nation, founded by Whites. Our country should favor us, GlomarResponder wrote last month. All blacks are foreign to my people, dumb fuck, the account posted in September of last year. Freedom of association hasnt existed in this country since 1964 at the absolute latest, GlomarResponder wrote four months prior, further clarifying the post was referring to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in a reply to a comment. Im not a commie, Im a fascist, GlomarResponder posted a couple weeks later. Fascists solve communist problems. Get your insults right, re****.
In August, GlomarResponder posted: Migrants are all criminals. Two months later, GlomarResponder shared an image that reads: It is our holy duty to guard against the foreign hordes. Some GlomarResponder posts evoke anti-immigrant violence: Nobody is proposing feeding migrants into tree shredders, the account posted in March 2024. Yet. Give it a few more weeks at this level of invasion, and that will be the moderate position. And in January: My WWII vet grandfather didnt get a chance to kill asians, so he volunteered for Korea. Hed be asking for a short term job with ICE kicking doors and swinging a baton.
Roddens ICE employment is confirmed by federal court records, background interviews, and Observer courtroom visits.
A resident of Frisco, Rodden has previously lived in Pennsylvania, Northern Virginia, and North Carolina, according to county voter registration, private data broker sites, and property records. Rodden attended Penn State and Wake Forest University law school. A James J. Rodden possesses a license to practice law in Washington, D.C., which allows representation of ICE in Texas immigration court and was granted within a year of Roddens graduation from Wake Forest. In court filings, Rodden has claimed to have worked in federal government for a number of years prior to his ICE job. What appears to be his LinkedIn lists prior employment as a U.S. Border Patrol agent, a United States Marine Corps armorer, and a litigation clinic student at a federal public defenders office. The Marine Corps confirmed Roddens service and final rank of corporal, and the Federal Public Defenders office in Greensboro, North Carolina, confirmed his prior employment. The Border Patrols parent agency declined to confirm Roddens prior employment and denied a public records request, citing privacy and national security concerns.
The evidence that Rodden operates the GlomarResponder account includes an overwhelming number of biographical details that GlomarResponder has shared over years that align with information about Rodden, including employment history, locations lived, characteristics of a spouse, involvement in a lawsuit against the federal government, height and fashion preferences, penchants for specific phrasing, and a variety of specific interests and hobbies. The Observer confirmed these details about Rodden through other social media profiles, public records, private data broker sites, open-source investigative tools, interviews, and attendance of court hearings in which Rodden was representing ICE.
Rodden did not respond to multiple Observer requests for comment, which detailed the findings of this story, sent to his ICE email address. A call to a phone number associated with Rodden reached a man who declined to confirm his identity before hanging up. When approached in a public hallway outside the Dallas immigration court and asked to confirm receipt of the emailed requests, Rodden said only to call [his] press office.
An ICE spokesperson declined to confirm Roddens employment, and the agency declined to release personnel records for Rodden without his written permission. The spokesperson wrote in an email: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will not comment on the substance of this article pending further investigation, to include whether the owner of the referenced X account is a current employee. Notwithstanding, ICE holds its employees to the highest standards of professionalism and takes seriously all allegations of inappropriate conduct.
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