These technologies, both visible and invisible, are transforming the front lines of immigration enforcement and political protest across America today. These new surveillance powers come at a time when ICE is also pushing the bounds of its traditional role of immigration enforcement. They then let me go,” Bloomington, Minnesota, resident Julio Garcia said in a court declaration, describing how immigration agents detained him on Jan. 9. - - -Phone location databasesPenlinkIn 2018, the Supreme Court ruled in Carpenter v. United States that mobile phone location data revealed so much about people’s lives that authorities need a warrant to access it from phone companies. The agency has begun using commercial location data again.

Source: Washington Post January 29, 2026 22:47 UTC