The Hidden Machinery of Immigration Enforcement:

The latest contract between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Zignal Labs expands the agency’s use of an “unseen system” of pervasive digital tools for migration enforcement. 

The irreducibly digital dimension of contemporary democratic governance is increasingly strained by nascent digital authoritarianism.

As surveillance technologies pervade executive agencies, their effects extend beyond immigration enforcement and into civil liberties and democratic oversight.