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Court documents released this week show that four days after Border Patrol agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in late January, the Department of Homeland Security opened an investigation out of its St. Paul office into...
Internal records obtained by Wired through Freedom of Information Act requests to Customs and Border Protection's Office of Professional Responsibility document alleged misuse of sensitive law enforcement databases by...
A report published Aug. 3, 2026, by Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology, titled “Raiding the Genome,” estimates that Immigration and Customs Enforcement submitted roughly 920,000 DNA profiles to the FBI’s...
On July 13, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a joint Defense Department and Justice Department task force to identify and prosecute unauthorized disclosures of sensitive information to the news media. Under...
Elinor Hilton and Colleen Fagan filed a First Amendment suit in federal court in Maine on February 23, 2026 against federal immigration officials, alleging the government collects and maintains data on people who observe...
The Justice Department acknowledged on February 12, 2026 that it logs search activity when members of Congress review unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files on department systems. The practice surfaced the previous day when...
Reporting in December 2025, first from the New York Times, revealed that the Transportation Security Administration has been providing Immigration and Customs Enforcement with lists of airline travelers several times a...
Throughout 2025, the Trump administration expanded tools encouraging the public to report suspected undocumented immigrants, including a longstanding ICE tip line, alongside a broader expansion of data-sharing across...