The winter after Donald Trump was elected president, two strangers arrived in a parking lot on Washington State’s Long Beach Peninsula.
For weeks, they sat in their vehicle and watched the workers arrive in their trucks.
Then the workers began to vanish
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For weeks, they sat in their vehicle and watched the workers arrive in their trucks.
Then the workers began to vanish
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The men were ICE agents. The disappearances were the people who had been deported. nyti.ms/2pkzmbA
The business of deportation has been transformed by the power of big data.
Over the course of more than a year, our writer tried to reverse-engineer how ICE officers use America’s vast post-Sept. 11 domestic-surveillance apparatus. nyti.ms/2pkzmbA
Over the course of more than a year, our writer tried to reverse-engineer how ICE officers use America’s vast post-Sept. 11 domestic-surveillance apparatus. nyti.ms/2pkzmbA
Public records make clear that ICE sucks up terabytes of information from hundreds of disparate computer systems, from state and local governments, from private data brokers and from social networks. nyti.ms/2pkzmbA
Based on hundreds of government-procurement records, dozens of interviews and thousands of pages of documents, this story reveals how ICE relies on state D.M.V. databases and information products like CLEAR, from Thomson Reuters, to target immigrants. nyti.ms/2pkzmbA
After two ICE agents came to town, immigrants began to disappear from a Washington State community with startling precision — a testament to the agency’s quiet use of vast surveillance powers.
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