Scott Detrow

It is always super fun and I learn a lot.

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A couple of months ago in Minneapolis, a woman named Emily was following an ICE vehicle around to keep tabs on it.

We're only using her first name because she fears retribution from the federal government.

Emily told NPR that on this particular day, the vehicle she was following came to an abrupt stop.

A masked federal agent leaned out of the window, took a picture of her car and a picture of her.

Female agent rolled down the window and leaned out and addressed Emily by name.

Emily says she has no idea how they pulled up her information so quickly.

The Department of Homeland Security has told NPR, quote, there is no database of, quote, domestic terrorists run by DHS.

Congressman Lou Correa, a Democrat from California, asked DHS Secretary Kristi Noem about it during a hearing in the House yesterday.

Noem will soon be out of that job.

President Trump announced she will leave the post at the end of the month.

NPR has compiled dozens of accounts of people caught up in the surveillance web, just like Emily.

They add another layer to our understanding of the broad tools that DHS, and more specifically ICE, are using to monitor people they seek to deport and to intimidate U.S.

citizens critical of their policies.

Consider this.

What is it like to be caught up in DHS's surveillance web?

It's Consider This from NPR.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using a variety of tools to surveil people they want to intimidate and apprehend.

That web helps federal agents find people they want to deport, but it also allows them to identify U.S.