How Apple's market power blocked ICEBlock

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  NPR.

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  This is the Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Waylon Wong.

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  And I'm Darian Woods.

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  It's becoming a familiar sight in Chicago and its neighboring suburbs.

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  Residents and bystanders spot masked and armed agents that look

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  like they're part of the federal government's deportation campaign there.

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  That's led by U.S.

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  Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

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  Neighborhood residents honk their car horns when they see agents.

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  They blow whistles.

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  They film video on their phones.

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  They text each other and call in tips to local immigration advocacy groups.

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  This activity is hard to escape.

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  I live in a Chicago suburb and I've seen helicopters circling overhead and my social media groups are blowing up.

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  And it's not just Chicago.

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  Agents from ICE and US Customs and Border Protection are also carrying out immigration enforcement in cities like Los Angeles and Portland,

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  Oregon.

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  And a lot of residents are using their phones to document and report sightings of agents.

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  But the federal government is going after major tech platforms that facilitate these alerts.

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