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12 firms land spots on DHS’s $1.5 billion counter-unmanned aircraft contract
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Extract, Violate, and Scare: Data Mining Tools Take Over the Immigration Surveillance State
Vol. 24 No. 4 (2026): Open Issue Articles Extract, Violate, and Scare: Data Mining Tools Take Over the Immigration Surveillance State Document Link: https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/issue/view/1134 Article Sidebar Published: Aug 30, 2026 DOI:… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
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ICE Wants New Immigrant Detention Built in a Year, Half Its Own Deadline
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pressing the companies that would build its new detention housing to work faster, cutting its own construction timeline in half and offering higher scores in the competition to bidders who commit to the most aggressive schedule. Continue reading
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ICE triples its orders to the private firms hunting immigrants
The first skip tracing orders, placed in December of last year, ran through May 14. Yesterday’s orders are each almost exactly three times the size. Constellation was ordered $767,468.75 in work the first time and $2,302,406.25 this week. Enprovera, the smallest firm, went from $34,552 to $103,656. Continue reading
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CBP Formally Hires Contractors to Collect Fines From People It Has Deported
The $36 million effort, spread across four companies, relies on firms already working to locate immigrants for the government’s deportation surge. Continue reading
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ICE Awards GardaWorld $17.3 Million to Convert San Antonio Warehouse Into a Service Processing Center
Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded GardaWorld Federal Services $17.3 million on Thursday to renovate an agency-owned building in San Antonio into an immigration processing and detention facility, using the Navy contracting program the Department of Homeland Security said in June it had stopped using for detention work. The award record was posted to SAM.gov, the federal contracting database. Continue reading
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Oklahoma Voice: Military contractor aircraft surveil Arizona’s southern border for undisclosed mission
Military contractor aircraft equipped with high-end surveillance gear has been flying along the United States southern border above Arizona, New Mexico and Texas for months. The Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security won’t elaborate on what the aircraft are doing. Continue reading
State health department asks judge to force GEO Group to allow a TB investigation while lawsuit moves ahead
Colorado took another legal step Thursday in its lawsuit against the GEO Group for the company’s failure to comply with a state public health order over a case of tuberculosis at its Aurora immigrant detention facility, confirmed in June. Continue reading
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Prison Firm Donated to Trump’s PAC After ICE Gave It $165 Million a Year in Contracts
Prison Firm Donated to Trump’s PAC After ICE Gave It $165 Million a Year in Contracts The GEO Group has profited from the administration’s mass deportation campaign. A subsidiary donated more… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Trump’s Private Hacker Memo Is the Right Idea
The U.S. government’s plan to enlist private-sector hackers to target cybercriminals is controversial, but it addresses a real problem and is surprisingly measured. Continue reading