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The Surveillance Interstate
November 23, 2025·28 min·2 clips
ICE officers can now track vehicles and people in near real-time just by pointing an app at a license plate.
As heard by us
A steady look at surveillance infrastructure becoming enforcement machinery.
The episode keeps its focus on a plain but uneasy question: what happens when surveillance tools get folded into immigration enforcement and treated like routine fieldwork?
Why you'd press play
You get a clear map of how an ICE license-plate scan turns into enforcement muscle.
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