On Wednesday, the courtroom for the trial of the Spokane 3 heard testimony from supervisory Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention officer Jeremy Burlingame. Burlingame has been with ICE since 2007, he said from the witness stand. He mostly works in Spokane, though he spent a bit of time in Texas.
Burlingame was in the ICE building during the June 11 protests. He was also one of the federal agents who accused June 11 protester and Human Rights Commissioner Justice Forral of detaining agents unlawfully in the local charging documents. Prosecutors called him to testify in the federal trial for the three protesters charged with federal conspiracy.
We found a Twitter account under Burlingame’s name. The profile picture depicts a man with his back to the camera, wearing an ICE vest. This account posted about the June 11 protests, stating that former Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart, who posted a call for folks to join him in protesting the detainment of two young men, “needs to be charged for incitement at the federal level.” It also posted about a local ICE arrest in Spokane Valley.
Just over a month later, Stuckart and eight other protesters were charged with the federal felony of “Conspiracy to Impede or Injure Officers.”
Other posts on the X account include:
- calling a Black politician “lying ghetto garbage” for trying to conduct congressional oversight at an ICE detention facility
- calling Senator Chris Van Hollen “a treasonous traitor” for visiting the unlawfully detained Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the prison in El Salvador where he had been illegally shipped by the Trump administration
- tweeting at DOGE and the Department of Homeland Security asking why “bean counting idiots at ICE HQ” are making calls about field work because “red tape and foolishness is choking out productivity”
- reposting a video of a local arrest where ICE agents broke the window of a pregnant woman in Spokane Valley to detain two immigrants
(Note: some of the X links may not work if you aren’t logged in, or they may end up getting purged. Screenshots are below.)
The transcription of the video with the pregnant woman quotes one agent saying, “It’s pregnant,” which is visible on the screenshot Burlingame retweeted, as is the caption, “ICE breaking window and arresting pregnant invader. Nobody fucking cares. Go have your baby in Guatemala.” The woman in the video is a US citizen married to one of the men ICE was detaining. (This tweet appears to have since been deleted.)
The account also tweeted at least three times videos of Black women stating that “Black culture is in need of some help,” wished Muslim politicians “Happy Easter” and called videos of transgender people “Mental illness on display!”
In response to a video of a cop violently arresting a Black woman, the account under Burlingame’s name responded to a commenter questioning the necessity of the violence with the reply, “Your an idiot. You thinking biting cops is good? You like jungle behavior? [sic]”
ICE spokesperson David Yost told RANGE the agency had distributed “internal guidance” for how agents should use social media, but that they mostly follow a “common-sense approach.” RANGE asked to see that guidance and whether Burlingame’s tweets violated it, but Yost did not respond.
The account has not posted or commented on anything since June 12, 2025. We attempted to DM the account to request comment, but X settings did not allow us to since we are not “mutuals.”
Erin Sellers
UPDATE
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Additional reporting contributed by Aaron Hedge.
