As Immigration and Customs enforcement agents ramp up deportation efforts under the order of President Donald Trump, one man has created an app that allows people to warn their communities ahead of time.

The app, ICEBlock, allows users to report sightings of ICE activity.

“When I read Project 2025, listened to Trump on the campaign trail and then saw his administration putting policies into place to achieve those goals, I knew something had to be done to help the people,” creator Joshua Aaron recently told Newsweek.

Several members of the administration have come out against the app, with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has calling it an “obstruction of justice” in a post to X this week.

“If you obstruct or assault our law enforcement, we will hunt you down and you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Noem wrote.

But Aaron maintains that the app is not intended to target ICE agents.

“I have continually made it clear, both via wording in the app and through media, that this is an early warning system,” he told Newsweek.

“In no way are we encouraging ICEBlock users to interfere with law enforcement.”

As ICE detention centers continue to fill rapidly as the Trump administration stresses daily arrest totals, advocates in Alabama and across the nation remain concerned about overcrowding and inhumane conditions.

“When we see ICE agents outside of elementary schools, disappearing college students for their political beliefs or ripping babies from their mother’s arms as they scream for their children, we all know their rhetoric of ‘getting rid of the worst of the worst’ is a lie,” Aaron told Newsweek.

“As I often say, if you ever wondered what you would’ve done if you lived in Germany during Hitler’s rise to power, wonder no more because you’re doing it right now.”

“Developing ICEBlock was my way of joining the fight and giving people a chance to help protect themselves and their communities,” he continued.

Last week, Mobile and Baldwin Sheriffs joined the 287G program that empowers local law enforcement to carry out the duties of federal immigration agents.

Deputies in the program will now be able to ask and identify whether people are here legally or not, according to Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch.

Colbert, Cherokee, Crenshaw, Elmore, Etowah, Franklin, Henry, Houston, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Marion and Pike counties and the Level Plains Police Department have also joined the program this year.

As of Friday, 737 such agreements existed across 40 states.