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Maternal Dispatches with Hollie McKay

How ICE Built a Surveillance Machine That Watches Everyone — Not Just Immigrants

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Hollie McKay
May 17, 2026
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An ICE agent holds up a phone. The camera locks on a face. In seconds, a name comes back, a home address, a confidence score. The person being photographed has never been charged with anything. They were standing at a bus stop making sure their kids got on safely.

That is not a hypothetical. It happened in Minneapolis. And it is now happening across the country.

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