Since federal authorities got Apple and Google to take down some raid-tracking apps such as ICEBlock, activists have turned to more obscure sites and direct methods. During the Los Angeles enforcement surge last year, they posted fliers around town bearing the names and faces of ICE agents.
ICE, for its part, is taking pictures of people on the street and using an app called Mobile Fortify to check the images against databases, officials said. And it is wielding its $30 billion budget, tripled by Trump’s sweeping 2025 budget legislation, to expand its surveillance capabilities with data from license-plate readers, social media scrapers and location-tracking services.
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