Fear of[…](ICE) raids began to spread the day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated[…]
That same Tuesday morning, an X account with over 17,000 followers named GlomarResponder made an ominous post[…]
These were but the latest posts that GlomarResponder has made over the years that suggest the operator of the account is an ICE employee[…]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[…]
“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[…]“Freedom of association hasn’t existed in this country since 1964 at the absolute latest,” GlomarResponder wrote four months prior[…]“I’m not a commie, I’m a fascist,” GlomarResponder posted a couple weeks later. “Fascists solve communist problems. Get your insults right, retard”

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 didn’t get a chance to kill asians, so he volunteered for Korea. He’d be asking for a short term job with ICE kicking doors and swinging a baton”[…]
A year prior, the Jim Rodden Facebook account posted: “This is your periodic reminder that anyone who is trying to force a needle into my arm, or my son’s arm, can fuck directly off forever with the ‘my body, my choice’ bullshit”[…]
The Facebook account has posted about opposition to “red flag laws” that can restrict a person’s ability to purchase a gun