Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrive to push protesters back as cars enter and leave the Delaney Hall Immigration Detention Center on June 12, 2026 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Documents shared exclusively with FedScoop offer insight into the initial contract awarded six years ago that acted as a critical building block in DHS’s current surveillance apparatus.
Agents with the Homeland Security Investigations attend a press conference after the sentencing of Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada outside of Brooklyn Federal Court on July 20, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
DHS’s inspector general found that the agency spent millions to develop inadequate tools amid a shift toward immigration enforcement and away from drug investigations.
iOS 26 locked screen is seen displayed on a phone screen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on Sept. 17, 2025. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
ICE and Homeland Security Investigations plan to spend up to $100 million over the next five years on Cellebrite's digital forensics hardware and software tools.
ICE agents conduct operations in the Little Village neighborhood, a predominantly Mexican-American community in Chicago, on Nov. 8, 2025. (Photo by Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images)
40 congressional Democrats are urging blue-state leaders to block ICE access to a database containing residents’ driver license and registration information.
The plaintiffs say the agencies’ deployment of technologies that scour social media for “disfavored” speech violates the First Amendment and has chilled labor activities.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement security officers watch over undocumented immigrants at a processing center at the U.S. Federal Building in New York City on April 11, 2018. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
