ICE Prosecutor In Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account

By Steven Monacelli, Texas Observer, February 19, 2025

This article became on the starting up set published by Texas Observer.

Peril of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids started to unfold the day after President Donald Trump became inaugurated for the 2d time. Posts on social media and Reddit claimed that ICE had already been spotted in the Dallas neighborhood of Oak Cliff, where Latino immigrants started to decide in well-organized numbers in the 1970s and relish profoundly formed the culture of the colourful neighborhood.

That similar Tuesday morning, an X yarn with over 17,000 followers named GlomarResponder made an ominous submit. “Yeah, I’m in a courthouse wating [sic] on warrants,” GlomarResponder wrote. “Seems there’s heaps of bitch work to be done to form mass deportations happen.” One day prior, GlomarResponder had posted that he “Can ascertain all of those,” relating to a listing of cities where ICE became expected to originate up deportation operations the subsequent day. “Would possibly perchance presumably presumably relish a having a wager pool to gaze who can wager which one I’m at on any inform day, in maintaining with the news,” GlomarResponder wrote.

These had been but essentially the most up-to-date posts that GlomarResponder has revamped the years that counsel the operator of the yarn is an ICE worker. GlomarResponder has moreover automatically expressed blatantly racist and anti-immigrant views. Via an broad review of GlomarResponder’s X posts, publicly available documents, and heaps of social media profiles and posts, the Texas Observer has identified the operator of GlomarResponder as James “Jim” Joseph Rodden, a 44-300 and sixty five days-former who works as an assistant chief counsel for ICE in the Dallas assert. Rodden represents the agency in immigration court hearings where judges decide whether or now now not a particular person is faraway from the country.

Since GlomarResponder became first created in 2012, the yarn has posted hateful, xenophobic, and pro-fascist express material. “The US is a White nation, based by Whites. … Our country ought to desire us,” GlomarResponder wrote closing month. “All blacks are foreign to my other folks, dreary fuck,” the yarn posted in September of closing 300 and sixty five days. “Freedom of affiliation hasn’t existed in this country since 1964 at completely essentially the most up-to-date,” GlomarResponder wrote four months prior, further clarifying the submit became relating to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in a answer to a commentary. “I’m now now not a commie, I’m a fascist,” GlomarResponder posted a couple weeks later. “Fascists clear up communist issues. Get hold of your insults correct, retard.”

In August, GlomarResponder posted: “‘Migrants’ are all criminals.” Two months later, GlomarResponder shared a say that reads: “It’s miles our holy duty to give protection to in opposition to the foreign hordes.” Some GlomarResponder posts evoke anti-immigrant violence: “No one is proposing feeding migrants into tree shredders,” the yarn posted in March 2024. “Yet. Give it just a few more weeks at this level of invasion, and that can perchance presumably be the practical space.” And in January: “My WWII vet grandfather didn’t accept an opportunity to wreck asians, so he volunteered for Korea. He’d be soliciting for a handy guide a rough term job with ICE kicking doorways and swinging a baton.”

Rodden’s ICE employment is confirmed by federal court details, background interviews, and Observer court visits.

A resident of Frisco, Rodden has previously lived in Pennsylvania, Northern Virginia, and North Carolina, in maintaining with county voter registration, non-public details broker sites, and property details. Rodden attended Penn Articulate and Wake Wooded self-discipline University regulations college. A James J. Rodden possesses a license to study regulations in Washington, D.C., which enables representation of ICE in Texas immigration court and became granted within a 300 and sixty five days of Rodden’s graduation from Wake Wooded self-discipline. In court filings, Rodden has claimed to relish labored in federal authorities for a selection of years prior to his ICE job. What looks to be his LinkedIn lists prior employment as a U.S. Border Patrol agent, a United States Marine Corps armorer, and a litigation health facility pupil at a federal public defender’s space of work. The Marine Corps confirmed Rodden’s carrier and closing horrible of corporal, and the Federal Public Defender’s space of work in Greensboro, North Carolina, confirmed his prior employment. The Border Patrol’s mother or father agency declined to substantiate Rodden’s prior employment and denied a public details ask of, citing privacy and nationwide safety concerns.

The evidence that Rodden operates the GlomarResponder yarn contains an amazing selection of biographical significant aspects that GlomarResponder has shared over years that align with details about Rodden, collectively with employment history, locations lived, traits of a companion, involvement in a lawsuit in opposition to the federal authorities, top and vogue preferences, penchants for specific phrasing, and a range of specific interests and hobbies. The Observer confirmed these significant aspects about Rodden by heaps of social media profiles, public details, non-public details broker sites, commence-source investigative tools, interviews, and attendance of court hearings in which Rodden became representing ICE.

Rodden did now not acknowledge to just a few Observer requests for commentary, which detailed the findings of this fable, sent to his ICE electronic mail take care of. A name to a phone number linked with Rodden reached a man who declined to substantiate his identification sooner than striking up. When approached in a public hallway commence air the Dallas immigration court and requested to substantiate receipt of the emailed requests, Rodden talked about handiest to “name [his] press space of work.”

An ICE spokesperson declined to substantiate Rodden’s employment, and the agency declined to commence personnel details for Rodden without his written permission. The spokesperson wrote in an electronic mail: “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will now now not commentary on the substance of this text pending further investigation, to include whether or now now not the proprietor of the referenced ‘X’ yarn is a present worker. Notwithstanding, ICE holds its staff to the top possible requirements of professionalism and takes severely all allegations of substandard behavior.”

In November 2021, a neighborhood of federal staff filed a class circulation lawsuit, styled James Joseph Rodden, et al. v. Dr. Anthony Fauci, over the federal worker vaccine mandate that required all federal workers to receive the COVID vaccine to defend their jobs. Per the lawsuit, Rodden became an “Assistant Chief Counsel at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” an area the Observer became in an area to substantiate Rodden collected occupies by attending Dallas immigration court and noting his name on a time table circulated by the Dallas ICE Do of enterprise of the Most well-known Factual Consultant, where attorneys are infrequently continuously called assistant chief counsels.

On September 6, 2023, GlomarResponder wrote: “I’m celebration to a lawsuit where fighting transmission became the justification for a shot mandate,” relating to the COVID-19 vaccine. He later lamented, on December 12 that 300 and sixty five days, that the lawsuit had been vacated.

Lawsuit filings expose that Rodden took a blood take a look at as fraction of providing evidence of naturally received immunity to COVID, and a briefing submitted on behalf of Rodden and his co-plaintiffs in a an identical case argues that the vaccines are “much less efficacious than pure immunity in fighting reinfection.”

In posts on X, GlomarResponder has made statements that echo what Rodden asserted in the court filings. In 2023, GlomarResponder wrote that he stumbled on out he had had COVID when he “got a blood take a look at for a lawsuit” and that his immunity became stumbled on to be “better than that of the multi-shot morons.” In a present response to a submit that described the vaccine mandate as “insane,” GlomarResponder wrote that “some of us now now not handiest talked about so on the time, we sued them over it.”

On January 21 of this 300 and sixty five days, the an identical day that GlomarResponder claimed to be expecting warrants at a courthouse, Rodden became scheduled to be on the immigration courthouse in downtown Dallas, in maintaining with a weekly time table file from ICE. Later that week, the Observer witnessed Rodden working at a deportation listening to, where he became representing the authorities agency. At this listening to, and one other listening to in early February, Rodden wore a three-fraction suit, cufflinks, and a look—items GlomarReponder has posted about wearing—and looked to be approximately 6’2”, an equivalent to the discontinue that GlomarResponder has disclosed in posts on X. He moreover maintained a cleanly shaved head, something GlomarResponder has urged as “details” to males who’re going bald.

For the interval of the January court listening to the Observer attended, Rodden continuously historical his phone at moments that corresponded to times GlomarResponder made posts. At the February listening to, the Observer saw Rodden scrolling by the X app on his phone and drafting a submit at 1:14 p.m. The profile photo that looked while Rodden drafted the submit resembled that of GlomarResponder, which posted at 1:15pm.

Over time, GlomarResponder has moreover made a selection of posts that carefully align with the posts of a Facebook yarn with the profile name Jim Rodden. James Rodden infrequently goes by “Jim,” in maintaining with just a few sources, and the Facebook profile has posted in the Wake Wooded self-discipline Legislation Class of 2012 neighborhood, corresponding with education details on the James Rodden LinkedIn profile (which makes recount of the first name “Jim” in the URL). James J. Rodden moreover looks in the list of 2012 Wake Wooded self-discipline regulations graduates. GlomarResponder has posted just a few times about Wake Wooded self-discipline and the town where it is positioned, Winston-Salem.

The Jim Rodden Facebook profile has been tagged in a submit by an yarn exhibiting to belong to Rodden’s companion, and the Facebook has posted each and each specific textual express material and unfamiliar pictures that align with those posted by GlomarResponder.

On June 8, 2023, GlomarResponder wrote that “They tried to drive a needle in my arm, and threatened to take food out of my family’s mouths. I don’t take kindly to threats. I if truth be told relish replied by spending a predominant half of my time and adore on lawsuits.”

A 300 and sixty five days prior, the Jim Rodden Facebook yarn posted: “This is your periodic reminder that somebody who’s making an are trying to drive a needle into my arm, or my son’s arm, can fuck right now off forever with the ‘my body, my selection’ bullshit.” This submit, along with many others, became both deleted or made non-public after the Observer contacted Rodden for commentary.

The Facebook yarn has posted about opposition to “purple flag regulations” that can perchance restrict a particular person’s ability to aquire a gun, historical a say depicting the “Charm to Heaven” flag that has turn out to be linked with far-correct Christian nationalism for a profile banner photo, posted about the Comic from the comic guide series The Watchmen, shared a say of the Mexican wrestler Blue Demon, historical a say of the personality Kratos from the video game series God of War as a profile say, and historical just a few pictures of the insignia for the horrible of Corporal in the Marine Corps for various profile pictures. On X, GlomarResponder has moreover posted significantly about purple flag regulations, continuously posted the phrase “Charm to Heaven,” posted about how he thinks the Comic is “based,” shared the an identical say of the wrestler Blue Demon as the Facebook yarn (within 24 hours), posted about Kratos and the God of War video game series, and posted about how he had attained the horrible of Corporal when he left the Marines, which corresponds with the closing horrible Rodden attained sooner than leaving the Marines.

The Facebook yarn moreover aspects a banner say depicting an M1942 “Frog Pores and skin” camo flag with an odd cracked-cranium Marine Raiders value that became updated in November 2023. In July 2024, GlomarResponder posted the an identical photo. The flag is an unfamiliar variant that became previously supplied on a website called Paid to Raid but is rarely any longer listed among their products. Reverse say searches for the photo of the flag discontinue now now not turn up any heaps of exact matches commence air of Paid to Raid’s webstore.

The Observer moreover matched heaps of publicly available details about Rodden with biographical significant aspects published in GlomarResponder posts. County property details and college documents ascertain his prior self-discipline in Northern Virginia and North Carolina and attendance at Penn Articulate, where he participated in marching band in maintaining with the Linkedin profile. This is in maintaining with GlomarResponder’s posts that the yarn operator attended Penn Articulate, labored at an space of work in Northern Virginia, and became in marching band. James Rodden looks in a 2003 Penn Articulate yearbook.

GlomarResponder has moreover posted continuously about being an armorer, serving in the Marines, and working for Border Patrol, which correspond with Rodden’s LinkedIn.

In accordance with the Register of Deeds’ space of work of Forsyth County, North Carolina—reached by phone—James Rodden got married in August 2009. (Forsyth County is where Wake Wooded self-discipline is found.) His companion’s maiden name, confirmed by the clerk, aligns with public details and non-public details broker details that aid ascertain Rodden resides in Frisco.

A Facebook profile sharing his companion’s name made a submit in August about a family canines, Freya, in which the yarn tagged the Jim Rodden Facebook yarn. The Facebook yarn has described the canines as a “Working Line German Shepherd,” moreover referred to infrequently and by the yarn as “GSD,” particularly from the Czech lineage of the breed. In accordance with the Facebook and a LinkedIn profile matching her name, apart from as publicly available company details, Rodden’s companion is a horseback jumper trainer and proprietor of Particular Round Jumpers. Her Facebook yarn aspects posts about an pastime in dressage. The yarn’s profile say, on the starting up set shared in a submit by a Collin County horse practising facility’s Facebook page that tagged the obvious Facebook of Rodden’s companion, is of a girl with purple hair and no considered tattoos.

GlomarResponder has posted that the yarn operator’s companion is a “hunter / jumper trainer” who’s competent at “dressage” and has purple hair and no tattoos. The yarn has moreover posted quite lots of times about having a female canines and practising German Shepherds—relating to them as GSDs, positively describing the virtues of the “practical working line shep,” and posting that “Czech [GSDs] are moreover very right canines.”

On X, GlomarResponder has posted about assembly a companion at age 27 and getting married sooner than age 30. That aligns with Rodden’s August 2009 marriage file in Forsyth County, North Carolina, where Rodden owned property in maintaining with public details. Personal details brokers moreover space his companion on the an identical North Carolina take care of as Rodden right now. “At 28, am I the former guy in the category?,” reads an April 2009 submit made by the Jim Rodden Facebook yarn in the Wake Wooded self-discipline Legislation Class of 2012 Facebook neighborhood.

On Facebook, Jim Rodden has cherished and spoke back to blended martial arts photos and movies posted by a Frisco MMA gymnasium.

GlomarResponder has claimed to be beneath consideration for a federal appointment that can perchance require Senate affirmation, which the Observer could perchance now now not ascertain. The yarn has moreover urged that some of its posts will almost definitely be misrepresentations to purposely mislead other folks that esteem to repeat the operator’s identification.

“Whereas you’re reading my anon Twitter yarn, some non-public significant aspects will almost definitely be misdirection,” GlomarResponder wrote on August 17, 2024.

However the alignment of biographical significant aspects, political viewpoints, interests, and the utilization of the an identical pictures across accounts is so specific that commence-source intelligence consultants who reviewed the Observer’s findings talked about the evidence linking Rodden to GlomarResponder (and one other yarn, devildog_jim, historical for dialogue board posting) is now doubtlessly now not to be coincidental.

“We requested two of our analysts with more than two decades of blended expertise in commence source intelligence to review the identification,” talked about Bjørn Ihler, founder and CEO of Revontulet, a non-public counterterrorism intelligence and learn firm. “They stumbled on it to be thorough, well-supported, and mighty of public consideration. They agree that the evidence linking James Rodden to the acquire accounts in question is solid, with well-known biographical consistencies spanning over a decade. … The depth of the investigation leaves small room for doubt.”

An criminal dependable expressing racism, xenophobia, and fascist politics would raise questions on their ability to behave slightly and impartially in right proceedings, similar to in Rodden’s capacity representing ICE in immigration elimination hearings, talked about Cyrus Mehta, a Fresh York-based immigration criminal dependable with over 30 years of expertise.

“A authorities lawyer who vilifies other folks that he opposes in court, and puts that out beneath the radar, would clearly be taking part in behavior that’s prejudicial to the administration of justice,” Mehta talked about.

Mehta talked about such behavior could perchance violate the Guidelines of Legit Habits for the District of Columbia Bar—which declined to commentary for this fable—by which James J. Rodden holds his license. In accordance with Mehta, such tips are overall in bar associations and had been historical to rate and sanction attorneys.

For context, Mehta vital, there’s moreover a rule in the Code of Federal Regulations relating to non-public attorneys that claims it’s “in the general public pastime for an adjudicating legitimate or the board to impose disciplinary sanctions in opposition to any practitioner” who engages in “behavior that is prejudicial to the administration of justice or undermines the integrity of the adjudicative.”

As of e-newsletter time, Rodden is collected scheduled to characterize the authorities in immigration court.

Kyle Phalen, an neutral researcher, contributed to this picture.

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