Protesters “glitter bombed” Immigration and Customs Services (ICE) agents to make them easier to identify as they conducted mass immigration arrests in June 2025.
Posts that circulated across social media in June 2025 claimed protesters were “glitter bombing” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to make them easier to identify. The posts made the rounds amid widespread federal immigration raids that sparked protests throughout the U.S.
In a viral post (archived) shared on June 19, 2025, one Facebook user wrote:
I’m hearing that people are dumping glitter on ICE agents so they can be identified days later and if this is true it’s one of my favorite forms of resistance to tyranny I’ve ever heard of.
Similar claims circulated on Reddit (archived) and X (archived), often alongside the meme below:
(Reddit user UglyGerbil)
Some commenters appeared to take the rumor as fact. Snopes readers also emailed us and searched our website to ask if the claims were real.
However, there’s no evidence that protesters dumped glitter on ICE agents to make them easier to identify. Instead, the rumor originated as
Searches for “ICE agents glitter” on Google, Bing, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo did not find any credible media outlets reporting on such incidences. Instead, the searches showed unrelated news stories about ICE or social media posts making the claims. If protesters were “dumping pounds of glitter” on ICE agents, as many of the posts claim, reputable news outlets would likely report on that development.
Snopes traced one of the earliest iterations of the claim to a post from The Halfway Post — a social media account that describes its output as satirical in nature. Its bio reads: “Halfway true comedy and satire by @DashMacIntyre — I don’t report the facts, I improve them. Comedy is cathartic in fascist eras.”
A satirical post (archived) shared by The Halfway Post on June 18, 2025, included nearly identical language to the meme people shared on social media. It read:
BREAKING: ICE agents are complaining that every time they go out wearing masks in unmarked cars with no uniforms or identification as law enforcement to abduct people, protesters keep dumping pounds of glitter on them so that everyone can tell they’re ICE for days afterwards.
Several days before sharing that post, The Halfway Post also wrote (archived):
BREAKING: So many protesters are throwing glitter at ICE agents that ICE can no longer effectively sneak up on people at night because everyone can see them from blocks away.
Dash MacIntyre, the person behind The Halfway Post, confirmed to Snopes via email that the claims originated with his account.
I made up the glitter idea, but it has been shared and copied multiple times by other accounts who stole my joke or repeated it thinking it was real news. I take care to clearly label all my profiles as satirical comedy, and I’m pretty open with my audience about the Dadaist approach I take to parody in this fascist era we are living through, but imitators, thiefs, and viewers with low digital literacy often repost my work without such context.
Snopes reached out to ICE for comment and will update our story if we receive a response.
The Halfway Post has a history of making up stories for shares and comments.
For example, Snopes debunked a rumor stemming from The Halfway Post that Grindr threatened to reveal the identities of Republican politicians who “secretly” used the gay online-dating app. We also addressed the account’s satirical claim that Chinese officials said U.S. President Donald Trump calls them a dozen times daily to beg for a trade deal, but they put him on hold while playing audio of speeches by former President Barack Obama until Trump hangs up.
For background, here is why we alert readers to rumors created by sources that call their output humorous or satirical.
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