During the summer of 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) prosecutor James Rodden ran a white supremacist X account called @GlomarResponder.
Occupy Democrats, a left-wing advocacy group, posted the claim on Facebook on July 30, 2025. That post had more than 90,000 reactions at the time of this writing.
Occupy Democrats wrote, "BREAKING: One of Trump's ICE Prosecutors has been unmasked as the operator of a white supremacist Twitter account." (Twitter was the name of the social media platform now known as X before April 2023.)
The claim also appeared on X (archived), Instagram (archived), Threads (archived), Bluesky, TikTok (archived) and Reddit (archived) throughout the summer of 2025. Snopes readers wrote in asking if the claim was true.
The claims originated from reporting by the Texas Observer, an independent news outlet producing investigative reporting. The Texas Observer published a report on Feb. 19, 2025, titled, "ICE prosecutor in Dallas runs white supremacist X account." That report detailed how the publication linked the X account @GlomarResponder to Rodden, who worked for ICE on deportation cases in Dallas, Texas. As evidenced by archived screenshots, the @GlomarResponder X account posted a series of inflammatory statements about race and migration spanning several years.
The Texas Observer said in its reporting it attempted to contact Rodden, including in person at a Dallas courthouse, to ask whether he ran the @GlomarResponder X profile but received no response. Despite this, the Texas Observer concluded Rodden did run the account based on "an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation."
At the time of this writing, neither Rodden nor his assumed employer ICE had publicly confirmed whether Rodden ran the @GlomarResponder X account. The account was private at the time of this writing. In March 2025, ICE reportedly told U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas, who sent a letter asking the agency to investigate the Texas Observer's allegations against Rodden, that it was carrying out an investigation and hoped to complete it within 120 days.
Snopes could not reach Rodden for this report. We reached out to ICE, the District of Columbia Bar through which Rodden reportedly held his legal license, and Revontulet, a private counterterrorism intelligence and research company whose analysts supported the Texas Observer's findings in February, for any update on the allegations or evidence against Rodden and await replies to our queries.
'Strong' evidence linked @GlomarResponder account to Rodden
Though the @GlomarResponder account was private at the time of this writing, meaning Snopes could not view its posts, the Texas Observer saved a collection of posts using the archiving website archive.today. This website takes a snapshot of any webpage, preserving it for future reference.
The Texas Observer saved @GlomarResponder posts on topics including race, immigration and COVID-19 vaccinations.
On March 22, 2024, @GlomarResponder wrote, "Nobody is proposing feeding migrants into tree shredders Yet. Give it a few more weeks at this level of invasion, and that will be the moderate position." In April of that year, the account wrote, "'Migrants' are all criminals."
In January 2025, @GlomarResponder wrote, "America is a White nation, founded by Whites. We are the historical and majority population, and it was founded for our benefit. Our country should favor us."
The @GlomarResponder account's posts on COVID-19 were one of the ways the Texas Observer linked Rodden to the account.
In November 2021, a group of federal employees filed a class-action lawsuit against a slew of defendants, including then-Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci. The case, called Rodden v. Fauci, listed (page 11) as its first plaintiff James Rodden, an assistant chief counsel at ICE.
The Texas Observer argued that this was the same person running the @GlomarResponder account based on details shared through the account's posts. In September 2023, the account wrote, "I'm party to a lawsuit where preventing transmission was the justification for a shot mandate, so this is flat out untrue."
According to court filings (page 8), plaintiffs who had gained natural immunity to COVID-19 after having the virus themselves took antibody tests to prove this. The @GlomarResponder account wrote in August 2023 that they found out they had COVID when they "got a blood test for a lawsuit."
Aside from the @GlomarResponder posts that the Texas Observer said matched details from Rodden's class action lawsuit, the outlet also reported it saw Rodden using the X app while in court at times that corresponded to posting times for the @GlomarResponder account. The Texas Observer wrote:
During the January court hearing the Observer attended, Rodden repeatedly used his phone at moments that corresponded to times GlomarResponder made posts. At the February hearing, the Observer saw Rodden scrolling through the X app on his phone and drafting a post at 1:14 p.m. The profile photo that appeared while Rodden drafted the post resembled that of GlomarResponder, which posted at 1:15pm.
The Texas Observer's report included several other links between the @GlomarResponder account's posts and Rodden's biographical details. Revontulet, a private counterterrorism intelligence and research company, reviewed the Texas Observer's findings, and concluded that "the evidence linking James Rodden to the online accounts in question is strong, with significant biographical consistencies spanning over a decade."
No ICE investigation 120+ days after allegations
According to the Texas Observer's Feb. 19 report, ICE declined to confirm Rodden's employment or release his personnel records. A spokesperson reportedly told the Texas Observer:
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.
Following the Feb. 19 report, three congressmen wrote letters to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) demanding an investigation into Rodden and the Texas Observer's allegations.
ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) reportedly told Veasey on March 6 that it was carrying out an investigation and hoped to complete it within 120 days. That deadline lapsed on July 4. At the time of this writing, the OPR had not publicly released the results of such an investigation. We reached out to Veasey to ask if he had heard anything further and await a reply.
On Feb. 24, 2025, five days after the Texas Observer's initial report, Reps. Bennie Thompson and Jamie Raskin, ranking members of the House Committee on Homeland Security and House Committee on the Judiciary respectively, wrote to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to request an immediate investigation into Rodden and the @GlomarResponder account. A spokesperson from Raskin's office said on July 31 that the DHS "did not provide a substantive response to the letter from Ranking Members Thompson and Raskin."
Rodden's employment status with ICE remained uncertain at the time of this writing. According to a Feb. 26, 2025, Texas Observer report, Rodden was absent from at least two hearings he was scheduled to attend during the week starting Feb. 24.
A later report on March 27 cited "three sources who work in Dallas immigration court" saying they had not seen Rodden "at work in-person" since the Texas Observer's first report. Snopes does not rely on anonymous sources and could not independently verify whether Rodden had been to court since Feb. 19, 2025.
In sum...
The Texas Observer reported extensively on physical and biographical similarities between Rodden and details posted on the @GlomarResponder X account, some of which we have recounted and replicated in this story.
However, both Rodden and ICE remained mum on whether Rodden actually ran the account that posted inflammatory statements about race and immigration.
Though the ICE OPR said in March an investigation into the allegations surrounding Rodden and the @GlomarResponder account was ongoing, it had yet to publish any findings. The DHS had also not given a substantial response to a letter from Reps. Thompson and Raskin requesting an investigation. Rodden's employment status with ICE remained unclear at the time of this writing.