Trump’s megabill expands biometric surveillance
As debate intensifies in the United States over H.R. 1, otherwise known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” Senate Republicans…
ICE – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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New ICE mobile app pushes biometric policing onto American streets
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has quietly deployed a new surveillance tool in its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO)…
Police, federal video surveillance of anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles raise alarms
In the wake of escalating protests in Los Angeles over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and broader immigration…
ICE advances sole source deal with Palantir for new surveillance backbone
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is preparing to move forward with a sole-source contract to Palantir Technologies for the…
DNA surveillance of migrant children in US sparks legal and ethical alarms
Since 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has ramped up its biometric surveillance capabilities by dramatically expanding DNA collection…
ICE is at the center of a vast and growing US biometric surveillance capability
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has quietly emerged as the operational nucleus of a vast, fragmented, and increasingly automated…
Palantir’s ImmigrationOS fuels Trump administration’s immigrant removal agenda
In April 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarded a $30 million contract to Palantir Technologies to develop ImmigrationOS,…
How Geo Group tech became a cornerstone of Trump’s immigration crackdown
The story of a Honduran immigrant living in Louisiana captures the troubling transformation of U.S. immigration enforcement in the Trump…
Limited use of mobile biometrics, data analysis weakens immigration enforcement, US lawmakers told
At a recent House subcommittee hearing, experts and former U.S. homeland security officials testifying on the evolving role of technology…
ICE awards $63M biometrics and IdM contract for international student program
Dev Technology Group has been awarded a five-year contract valued at $63 million by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security‘s…
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