ICE’s Expanding Digital Surveillance Threatens Privacy and National Liberty

In an era when safeguarding American freedoms should be paramount, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) is dramatically expanding its digital surveillance operations—this time through contracted workers based out of a modest office park in Williston, Vermont. Documents reveal that ICE’s National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center intends to hire a dozen or more contractors specifically tasked with scouring social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and X. These efforts aim to identify individuals labeled as threats to national security or public safety but come perilously close to sweeping up large segments of everyday Americans’ online activity without sufficient...