DHS expands domestic surveillance system to track 300 million for immigration enforcement
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Updated · The Wall Street Journal · May 1
DHS expands domestic surveillance system to track 300 million for immigration enforcement
10 articles · Updated · The Wall Street Journal · May 1
The Wall Street Journal said DHS spent a record $425 million on surveillance technology last year, with Palantir contracts rising to $81.3 million and a four-year $1 billion agreement signed in February.
Tools now available to immigration agents include facial recognition, location tracking, social-media monitoring and phone-hacking software, while lawsuits and a February inspector-general investigation challenge alleged unconstitutional arrests, visa revocations and intimidation of US citizens.
DHS says its methods are lawful and needed to track more than 7 million immigrants, but privacy experts and former officials warn the crackdown is testing constitutional limits on surveillance and First Amendment protections.
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