"targeted surveillance, not just of undocumented people, but of American citizens as well."
"Who owns all of the phones that have been outside of the ICE facility every night for the last three nights? And let's send them all to HSI for investigation."
"I don't have facts right now, and I like to operate based on facts,"
"The fact that I don't have facts makes me very uncomfortable."
ICE procured multiple advanced biometric and digital surveillance systems, including Clearview AI facial recognition, BI²'s I.R.I.S. ocular identification, Paragon Solutions smartphone-access software, and Penlink real-time location tracking. The technologies enable rapid identification, remote extraction of smartphone data, and integration of location data to build timelines and correlate events. Civil liberties groups warn the spending raises the possibility of targeted surveillance of undocumented people and American citizens. Congressional oversight faces hurdles due to limited agency responsiveness. ICE added roughly 7,000 beds across private and state-run facilities since the recent immigration law.
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