Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is on a surveillance spending spree:
- The agency is using much of its windfall from this summer's One Big Beautiful Bill Act to fund a major expansion of biometric identification, cellphone tracking and other electronic capabilities.
Why it matters: The megabill's $75 billion cash infusion for ICE was sold by Congress as a way to speed up hiring new agents and adding detention space. But ICE is also going big on surveillance.
