NH Democrat Lawmaker’s ICE ‘Watch List’ Raises Alarm After Dallas Shooter Used Similar Apps

CONCORD, NH — Revelations from the FBI that the Dallas shooter used apps designed to track the movements of federal immigration agents are fueling questions about similar “watch list” systems operating in New Hampshire and elsewhere.

In a recently surfaced video, State Rep. Paige Beauchemin (D-Nashua) described being part of a secret alert network in her city that monitors Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity and mobilizes observers in real time.

State Rep. Paige Beauchemin (D-Nashua)

Recorded while driving, Beauchemin said she was notified through the network when ICE agents were spotted outside the Nashua courthouse. She recounted rushing to the scene “in [her] pajamas” after receiving the early-morning alert.

“I'm on a Nashua watch list so that when things happen we get in touch with people right away,” Beauchemin said in the video. “There's a whole like network in Nashua.”

According to Beauchemin, the system aims to notify families and ensure activists are present to record or witness ICE enforcement activity. While she did not call for confrontation, her acknowledgment that a coordinated surveillance effort exists in Nashua has sparked criticism that such monitoring could interfere with lawful federal operations.

Those concerns have deepened after FBI Director Kash Patel disclosed new details about the Dallas shooter’s preparations. Patel said investigators found the suspect had downloaded a government document listing Department of Homeland Security facilities, conducted repeated searches of ballistic data and violent content, and, crucially, “searched apps that tracked the presence of ICE agents” in the weeks before the attack.

One handwritten note recovered from the suspect read: “Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?’” Patel said the evidence indicated a high degree of pre-attack planning.

Across the country, progressive activists have increasingly built rapid-response networks to follow and film ICE operations. Federal officials warn these systems can escalate tensions, compromise safety, and put officers at risk.

The overlap between tools embraced by activists and those exploited by a violent extremist in Dallas is now drawing heightened scrutiny.

Republican leaders in New Hampshire say the episode underscores why pending Democratic bills that restrict cooperation with federal immigration enforcement are misguided. They argue that empowering federal-local partnerships is necessary to protect public safety.

Beauchemin, whose district covers parts of Nashua, has defended the watch list network as a community resource. But with federal investigators warning that anti-ICE mobilization tools were part of a gunman’s planning for violence, the debate over such systems is expected to intensify both in New Hampshire and nationally.