Credit Cards Feed ICE Surveillance While Flock Cameras Multiply
July 22, 2026
Immigration enforcement agencies are expanding their domestic surveillance apparatus by harvesting consumer address data from credit card brokers and blanketing municipalities with Flock automated license plate readers. As federal officials defend these dragnet operations against local anti-mask laws and court-ordered oversight, bystander video and leaked internal directives reveal a deepening reliance on opaque corporate data pipelines and militarized policing tactics.
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You Opened a Credit Card. ICE Now Knows Where You Live
Here's how your personal address travels from your credit card provider, through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE.
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Florida Fires Expose Violations Of Over 100 Court Orders By ICE, DOJ
The Trump administration continues to pretend migrants don’t have due process rights. It does this despite racking up nearly 10,000 rulings to the contrary — losing in roughly 90% of the petitions brought by ICE detainees. While the Fifth Circuit continues to play coy about the 14th Amendment’s exis…
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Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock Cameras
"For the time being, if you or someone on your crew has availability to secure black plastic bags (or something else) over the cameras, that would be great."
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Podcast: Flock is Tracking People, Not Just Cars
How cops are using Flock to look for specific people; the company buying mountains of books for AI companies; and the big Suno hack.
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Administration Works Fast To Cover For Another ICE Killing
Former DHS head Kristi Noem got permanently sidelined for being unable to do two impossible things at once: be the anti-migrant hardliner Trump appointed her to be and massage the message when shit went sideways. Two murders in less than a month in Minneapolis may have made plenty of administration…
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ICE Mandates Dress Code After Killings and Botched Arrest
Updates to ICE’s code of conduct ban deportation officers from wearing jeans, hoodies, and graphic tees, according to a leaked document. The post ICE Mandates Dress Code After Killings and Botched Arrest appeared first on The Intercept.
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States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The Trump Administration Is Blocking Them
Federal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesn’t actually work.
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Tom Homan Again Promises That ICE Will Keep Murdering People Until Democrats Stop Calling Them Murderers
Earlier this year “Border Czar” Tom Homan, with an apparently straight face, told the media that if Democrats didn’t stop calling ICE murderers for the murders they committed, then they would have no choice but to murder more people. A few weeks later, when ICE did murder another person, he doubled…
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Attempted Murder Charges Dropped After Bystander Recordings Expose ICE Officer’s Lies
Record law enforcement officers whenever you can. Sure, they’ll hate it, but it helps all the people they seek to do harm to. Last summer, recordings and other evidence undercut a lot of the administration’s attempts to convert First Amendment activity into criminal charges. Prosecutors who dropped…
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