For several months now, Democrats and leftist activists have repeatedly harassed, obstructed, and even physically assaulted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and officers as they've merely attempted to do their job of apprehending illegal aliens across the country.

On Thursday, and at the urging of the Department of Justice, Apple removed from its app store a mobile application known as ICEBlock, which allowed users to report and track the movements and operations of ICE personnel, according to the Washington Examiner.

It is strongly suspected that the app has endangered ICE agents and been utilized by anti-ICE activists and protesters to harass and obstruct ICE operations, as well as perhaps also the individual who opened fire on an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas, last month.

DOJ demands app's removal

Fox Business reported that the DOJ made contact with Apple on Thursday to express deep concerns about the ICEBlock app endangering federal personnel and successfully convinced the giant tech company to immediately remove it from its app store.

"We reached out to Apple today demanding they remove the ICEBlock app from their App Store -- and Apple did so," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. "ICEBlock is designed to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs, and violence against law enforcement is an intolerable red line that cannot be crossed."

"This Department of Justice will continue making every effort to protect our brave federal law enforcement officers, who risk their lives every day to keep Americans safe," she added.

App removal confirmed

Fox Business further reported that Apple, when pressed for comment about the development, confirmed that it had obliged the DOJ's request and swiftly removed not only ICEBlock but also similar tracking apps that targeted federal agents.

"We created the App Store to be a safe and trusted place to discover apps," the company said. "Based on information we’ve received from law enforcement about the safety risks associated with ICEBlock, we have removed it and similar apps from the App Store."

The media outlet also reached out to the creator of ICEBlock, Joshua Aaron, who said that he was "incredibly disappointed" that Apple was "capitulating to an authoritarian regime," and vowed to "fight this with everything we have."

He further falsely claimed that his app, which reportedly had more than 1.1 million users, was no different than other crowd-sourcing apps that use Apple's map services to allow users to report and avoid things like police speed traps and traffic accidents.

Bondi cracks down on anti-ICE violence

Months of verbal abuse, physical assaults, obstructive harassment, and siege-like protests against ICE agents and facilities, culminating in a targeted assassination attempt against ICE agents in Dallas that resulted in a gunman mistakenly murdering two illegal alien detainees, finally elicited a fierce response from Attorney General Bondi late last month.

"I have witnessed the continued onslaught of violence perpetrated against ICE officers across our country. The Department of Justice will not stand idly by in the face of such lawlessness," Bondi wrote in an X post. "At my direction, I am deploying DOJ agents to ICE facilities -- and wherever ICE comes under siege -- to safeguard federal agents, protect federal property, and immediately arrest all individuals engaged in any federal crime."

"Pursuant to President Trump’s recent executive action, I am also instructing the Joint Terrorism Task Forces across the country to disrupt and investigate all entities and individuals engaged in acts of domestic terrorism, including the repeated acts of violence and obstruction against federal agents," she continued. "The Department of Justice will seek the most serious available charges against all participants in these criminal mobs, including conspiracy offenses, assault offenses, civil disorder offenses, and terrorism offenses."

"While these never-ending attacks are designed to break our will, they only strengthen our resolve to complete the work begun," Bondi added. "To that end, I have directed the FBI, DEA, ATF, and USMS to accelerate our efforts alongside the Department of Homeland Security to locate, apprehend, detain, prosecute, and remove all illegal aliens present in our country. The rule of law will prevail."