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How hackers are resisting ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement).

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Jan 8, 2026
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Learn more about how ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on surveillance technology to spy on everyone – and potentially the entire population – in the United States, and how you can track the spending of the Department of Homeland Security. ICE has been conducting raids in American cities, targeting, observing, intimidating, mistreating, arresting, and torturing people who are living in the country illegally. They have also been targeting people with work permits, asylum seekers, permanent residents (people with a "green card"), and naturalized citizens.

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Read more about how ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on surveillance technology to spy on everyone – and potentially the entire population – in the United States, and how you can track the spending of the Department of Homeland Security. ICE is infiltrating American cities, targeting, observing, intimidating, mistreating, arresting, and torturing people who do not have legal residency. They are also targeting people with work permits, asylum seekers, residents with permanent residency ("green cards"), naturalized citizens, and even people who have acquired citizenship at birth. ICE has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on surveillance technology to spy on everyone – and potentially the entire population – in the United States. It is difficult to imagine how one can defend against such overwhelming power. However, some resourceful hackers have started projects to counter ICE's surveillance and, hopefully, protect their communities by cleverly using technology. Let's start with Flock, the company behind several automatic license plate recognition systems.

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