Consider This from NPR

What it’s like to get caught in ICE’s surveillance web

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Mar 5, 2026
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ANECDOTE

Woman Followed ICE Then Faced Direct Intimidation

  • Emily followed an ICE vehicle and an agent photographed her car and herself.
  • A masked agent recited her home address and yelled, Emily, Emily, we're going to take you home, to intimidate her.
ANECDOTE

Observer Kept Under Surveillance While Documenting ICE

  • Elle followed ICE in Minneapolis to document them and agents repeatedly photographed her and pounded on her car window.
  • Once agents drove her toward her own home, making her feel they were trying to intimidate her into stopping documentation.
INSIGHT

ICE Combines Plates Faces Maps And Phone Location

  • ICE uses license plate data, facial recognition, Palantir's Elite and cell-location tools to identify people for deportation or intimidation.
  • Data brokers buy DMV records, Elite shows locations like a map, and agents can pull phone-location data to track people.
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