A Department of Justice (DoJ) employee claims she was fired “in retribution” after bosses discovered her husband was the creator of an anti-ICE app.

Carolyn Feinstein said she was unfairly removed from her post because of the role her husband, Joshua Aaron, played in developing ICEBlock.

The ICEBlock app sends warnings to users when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are nearby.

Earlier this month, Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, issued a warning to Mr Aaron, accusing him of “threatening the lives” of ICE agents.

Ms Feinstein received a letter on Friday saying her role has been terminated at the DoJ, where she has worked for almost a decade.

“This was retribution. I was fired because of the actions, or activism, of my husband,” Ms Feinstein told The Daily Beast.

“It is insulting to me because I dedicated myself and my career to serving the people of the United States, and now the DoJ is claiming I was attempting to harm some of them. And that’s not true.”