A bill framed around 'organized retail crime' would install ICE as the lead federal agency on commercial theft — giving the immigration enforcement agency a new statutory mandate to operate in communities where immigrant workers are concentrated.
ICE will deploy body cameras by the end of next month — under a policy that lets the agency's own director decide whether the public ever sees the footage. The cameras are real. The accountability is not.
Dozens of police officers have been accused of using Flock Safety's 80,000-camera surveillance network to track ex-partners and harass civilians. The company marketed the system as a crime-fighting tool — and left the keys entirely in police hands.
The Justice Department is threatening states that won't provide DHS officers with undercover license plates, framing a demand for covert surveillance infrastructure as a constitutional mandate — with no court precedent to back the claim.
ICE has doubled its use of ankle monitors on asylum seekers in the past year, forcing electronic shackles on people who attended every check-in and followed every rule.
ICE and other federal agencies are purchasing detailed location and browsing data from commercial brokers to track people without warrants, turning the advertising industry's surveillance infrastructure into a tool of state power that bypasses Fourth Amendment protections.
The IOC will require genetic testing for all women competitors at the 2028 Games — using trans athlete exclusion to justify invasive biological surveillance of every female Olympian.