Abby Manuel and Jack Vu noticed in April 2025 that some of the kids in the weekly classes they volunteered with had stopped showing up.

They realized an uptick in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Houston had caused their families to fear leaving the house.

In response, Manuel and Vu created a website that tracks ICE activity across the U.S., a tool that has been featured in many activist resource guides.

“Masked men from ICE showed up one April morning, and it all stopped. The kids couldn’t leave their homes. Our weekly classes stopped,” said Vu, a Sid Richardson College freshman. “Week after week, I would hear word of another family who left without a word. We made [the map] a few weeks later.”

The website, icemap.dev, tracks ICE-related news incidents in individual counties, as well as immigrant detention facilities with documented health and security inspection failures.