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A woman who shared a post about immigration activity on social media in January found herself facing federal agents five months later \u2014 agents who demanded she delete what she had written.<\/p>

Paigelynne Gonyea originally posted about an immigration surge in Minneapolis at the start of the year. This week, officials from ICE came to her and alleged that one of her social media posts had doxxed \u2014 meaning it revealed the personal information of \u2014 a federal agent.<\/p>

The encounter took place at a polling location in Syracuse, New York on June 23, 2026, and was recorded on video by another poll worker who was present at the scene.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A woman named Paigelynne Gonyea made a social media post about immigration activity in Minneapolis back in January. Five months later, federal agents from DHS showed up and told her to remove the post, claiming it had exposed the identity of a federal agent. The confrontation was captured on video by a bystander at a polling location in Syracuse, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":87427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[831],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/news-1782507684088.jpg?fit=2187%2C1230&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbtNqq-mK8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":87420,"url":"https:\/\/tvdelmarva.com\/wp\/woman-visited-by-dhs-agents-5-months-after-posting-about-ice-on-social-media\/","url_meta":{"origin":87428,"position":0},"title":"Woman Visited by DHS Agents 5 Months After Posting About ICE on Social Media","author":"Admin","date":"June 26, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"A Minnesota woman who posted about immigration enforcement activity in Minneapolis was visited by federal agents months later. 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