Kat Lonsdorf

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The NPR Politics Podcast · ICE is keeping tabs on American citizens · 10 Mar 2026 podcast

Maybe a contractor has a database.

Maybe it's not technically a database.

These are still things that we don't know.

I mean, I will say, you know, surveillance under DHS is not a new thing, right?

That is a big part of what the Department of Homeland Security does.

But, you know, especially under this administration, especially in Trump's second administration, ICE's budget has ballooned.

You know, part of the one big, beautiful bill act that was passed by Congress last year.

gave ICE something like an $80 billion budget.

It was a huge increase from their budget of previous years.

And a big part of what they've been using this money for is to scoop up surveillance technology and also sign tech contracts to do things with all of this data aggregation that Jude is talking about.

Well, we do know that ICE is using facial recognition technology and also location data, like Jude was talking about earlier, to find people and identify people that it potentially is seeking to deport.

But, you know, we're all subject to some level of this surveillance because ultimately, if it's being used on one of us, it's possibly being used on all of us, right?

Yeah.

I mean, and I will just say that this is just one more way that we've seen this administration push the boundaries of the law.

And then the courts have to go, you know, try to figure out where those boundaries are.

So we're just seeing a lot of these cases make it to the courts.

And then the courts are going to have to decide where the boundaries are around a lot of these laws.

I mean, that also is something we see happen regularly.

with technology, right?

Too, this is all a lot of new technology.

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