Joseph Cox

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On the Media · ICE's Summer Spending Spree · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

And it said that ICE was trying to buy ITINs, I-T-I-N, and that is the tax identifier given to undocumented people.

So when I showed that to Senator Ron Wyden, he gave me a statement and said, it sure looks like ICE is trying to buy the sort of data that they technically weren't allowed to get from the IRS.

And I do think that signifies something in that when ICE can't get a certain data set or type of information in one way, they might just try to purchase it another way or get it from another provider entirely.

A lot of law enforcement agencies like the FBI or the DEA or ATF or whoever, they usually will buy data from a provider like LexisNexis or Thomson Reuters, something like that, on a case-by-case basis.

Obviously, the difference with ICE, at least from the contracting records I've read, that they're even prepared to pay

basically twice for the same data if it means they can get it even quicker.

So when I was going through this Thomson Reuters $125 million procurement record, they sort of hint at in the contract itself, we actually already get some of this data from another contractor that feeds this information through to us.

We want it quicker and we want it in bulk and we're going to pay for this again even though this is going to cost ICE more money.

Mobile Fortify is absolutely still in use.

So picture the sort of facial recognition system that you have to go through if you enter the United States and potentially exit the United States as well.

This is run by Customs and Border Protection.

What ICE's Mobile Fortify app does is take that system, which traditionally was housed at the border, and turns it inwards and puts it onto ICE officials' mobile phones.

So they can then go up to somebody on the street

point their smartphone camera at them, scan their face, and the app will then query, I think, an unprecedented number of government databases, at least for an app being used inside the country.

And that's DHS stuff, that's FBI databases, some other ones as well.

And it will bring up

the person's alleged name, date of birth, and most importantly for ICE, whether they've been given a final order of deportation or not, we really saw it take off during Minneapolis and Minnesota, right?

So we saw an action there.

Then, later on...

I was relayed these talking points from a senior rights official at a border security expo.

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