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ICE Prosecutor Unmasked as Racist Troll Is Back at Work

James Rodden had previously been pulled from federal immigration court schedules.

A prosecutor for ICE who was revealed last year to be behind a white supremacist X account has returned to his job in a Texas immigration court.

The Texas Observer identified James “Jim” Joseph Rodden as being the owner of an account known as @GlomarResponder on X, in an investigation last February. Rodden, then 44, was employed as an assistant chief counsel and working as a prosecutor for ICE in Dallas Immigration Court at the time of the report.

In response to the Observer’s reporting, Rodden was pulled from federal immigration court schedules, and three members of Congress sent letters to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security demanding an investigation be opened. The ICE Office of Professional Responsibility said at the time that it “understands the seriousness of the allegations and will ensure the allegations are addressed appropriately, fairly, and expeditiously” but has not provided any information since.

Responding to a tip-off, the Observer attended Dallas Immigration Court on Tuesday and discovered Rodden sitting at the prosecutors’ desk, seemingly back at work. The Daily Beast has contacted the Department of Homeland Security and ICE for comment.

Rodden regularly posted racist and anti-immigrant sentiments to his X account, which has since been locked but which still has over 15,000 followers.

Examples of his posts include, ““America is a White nation founded by Whites” and “All blacks are foreign to my people, dumb f---.”

Rodden openly identified as a fascist on the account and asserted that freedom of association was abolished by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“’Migrants’ are all criminals,” he wrote in August 2024. “Nobody is proposing feeding migrants into tree shredders. Yet.”

Rodden also shared information about ICE raids and arrest warrants on the account, which suggested it was operated by someone within the agency. The Observer was able to confirm his identity by comparing information shared on the account with federal court records and other public records, information from data broker sites, open-source investigation tools, other social media profiles, and interviews, and courtroom hearings.

Observer reports also observed Rodden scrolling through X in the courtroom, and saw him begin to draft a post for an account with the same profile photo as GlomarResponder. A minute later, a new post appeared on GlomarResponder’s account.

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