ICE launches nationwide program for covert surveillance of immigrants
A subsidiary of the French company Capgemini signed a contract for some of the work, but after pressure from French officials, Capgemini now says it is no longer executing the contract.
ICE’s lead contractor for a new program to covertly surveil and photograph undocumented immigrants across the United States said after pressure from French officials that its contract is not being executed, in a rare rebuke of the agency by one of its own suppliers.
In December, Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly began a nationwide program to track 1.5 million undocumented immigrants through paid contractors using a combination of remote technologies and on-the-ground surveillance.
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