by Jacob Richards
On June 10 2025, Homeland Security Investigations agent Sarah Vasquez sent an email to Glenwood Springs Police Department Officer, Michael Prough, alerting him to a Facebook post by Mountain Action Indivisible which was spreading the word about an “ICE out of Glenwood” protest taking place on June 11.
The protest was not organized or sponsored by Mountain Action Indivisible or any individual organization but rather was a grassroots call to action. The event raised awareness about the ICE Field Office and secret detention facility in Glenwood Springs. The protest was peaceful.
“[Mountain Action Indivisible] recently learned of communications between Glenwood Springs local government officials and federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS/ICE) agents about local grassroots efforts to shine light on the ICE detention facility on Midland Avenue in Glenwood. Pictures of MAI social media posts were sent by DHS agents to officials in the City of Glenwood Springs, presumably as follow-up to a conversation between them. The fact that a federal agent forwarded our Facebook post to City staff is very troubling,” said Mountain Action Indivisible in a statement.
Why would the feds be monitoring peaceful middle-class liberal activists in a small mountain town like Glenwood Springs? Well, because they are targeting all dissidents.
In September, the regime released National Security Presidential Memo 7 (NSPM-7) which directed federal law enforcement agencies to target people with un-American, anti-Christian, anti-capitalist ideas, and those exposing extremism on gender or immigration, labeling them domestic terrorists.
The regime has denied making lists of American citizens engaged in constitutionally protected activities, but independent journalist Ken Klippenstein’s reporting has exposed numerous databases and lists targeting everyday Americans. Databases with names like, Bluekey, Grapevine, Hummingbird, Reaper, Sandcastle, Sienna, Slipstream, and Sparta are what an ICE agent in Maine was referring to when was caught on camera telling an observer: “We have a nice little database and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.”
“Surveillance of activist groups by federal agents, particularly if assisted by our local government, is deeply disturbing,” read MAI’s statement.
Mountain Action Indivisible is now calling on the City Council of Glenwood Springs to “work with community stakeholders to draft and establish a clear written policy prohibiting city staff from facilitating federal surveillance of community members exercising their First Amendment rights, and underscore that local police and City officials cannot assist in federal immigration operations.”
The email was from a recent CORA request attempting to uncover information on why the ICE Field Office in Glenwood Springs has been operating as a secret detention center on Certificate of Occupancy that expired over 20 years ago.
All activists, engaged citizens, and members of even the mildest and most milquetoast organizations are likely subject to ongoing monitoring and surveillance by federal agencies and should take that into consideration as we organize and operate in our communities and activist spaces.
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