(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former legal assistant for the Brownsville, Texas, U.S. Attorney’s Office was indicted last month for releasing the identity of a Homeland Security Investigations agent who was working on a multi-agency immigration enforcement operation in Texas last year. The doxxing of the agent led to a Mexican national threatening the agent.
The indictment stems from June 2025, illegal immigration crackdown in Texas, which was livestreamed online. During the livestream, ex-DOJ legal assistant, Karen De Leon, allegedly revealed the identity of one of the agents involved in the operation.
“A male subject joined the chat and made an online death threat towards one of the federal agents involved in the operation,” a news release last year from Cameron County District Attorney’s Office reportedly stated. “A viewer of the live stream [De Leon] commented providing the identity of the federal agent to the person making the threat.”
HOLY CRAP! A DOJ EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN ARRESTED for doxxing an agent to a person on a live stream with his personal info in Texas.
There is a SICK AND TWISTED ROT within our DOJ that still exists.
It MUST be rooted out. Make an example of this lady!
Of course she's a KAREN! pic.twitter.com/QiuihPVtvl
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) November 25, 2025
De Leon admitted to doxxing the HSI agent during a voluntary interview at the Brownsville, Texas, AUSAO, according to a press release from the DOJ Inspector General’s Office. She was arrested last November and released on a $20,000 bond.
She was indicted on June 24 of this year. The DOJ Inspector General’s Office announced the indictment in a recent press release.
Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
