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• ↓ Data-Driven Deportation in the 21st Century
• ↓ Foreword, May 2025
• ↓ I. Executive Summary
• ↓ A. Key Findings
• ↓ B. Recommendations
• ↓ C. About This Report
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"When we published American Dragnet: Data-Driven Deportation in the 21st Century in 2022, we understood that the surveillance infrastructure our report describes could one day be deployed by an authoritarian executive to coerce and control the U.S. population at scale. We did not anticipate that this day would come within three years. Our hope was that the findings of our research would be useful for the communities organizing against immigration policing and digital surveillance, and would help to provoke policy change. Today, as masked federal agents abduct students off the street in broad daylight, and the President scoffs at an order from the Supreme Court to facilitate the return of a man illegally deported to El Salvador, and his administration threatens to suspend habeas corpus, to hope to be saved by “policy change” would be to indulge in soothing nonsense. It would be vain to hope that the exposure of wrongdoing or the revelation of brutality could rouse the current Congress on behalf of the people. There is, in some sense, nothing left to be revealed or exposed. Or to be more precise, the revelation and exposure of new particulars will not tell us anything more about the nature of the political situation through which we are living. The struggle now is not to uncover the right information, but to rightly understand the meaning of the information we already have, and to face that meaning together."

"We are re-releasing American Dragnet today because, while we do not have updated findings, the current context requires an updated understanding of our original findings."

"ICE had scanned the driver’s license photos of 1 in 3 adults."

"ICE had access to the driver’s license data of 3 in 4 adults."

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Data-Driven Deportation in the 21st Century

Foreword, May 2025

I. Executive Summary

A. Key Findings

B. Recommendations

C. About This Report