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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents use their phones near protestors at a demonstration in Newark, New Jersey May 7, 2025, outside Delaney Hall, a newly converted immigrant detention centre. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP via Getty Images)

White House pressing ICE for updates on wearable identity verification technology

Assistant Director Matthew Elliston said the smart glasses project is in the beginning stages and the agency is still looking for a vendor.
Police officers stand guard in front of an Eastern Airlines plane carrying Venezuelan migrants repatriated from the US after landing at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, on Dec. 3, 2025. (Photo by Juan BARRETO / AFP via Getty Images)

Lawmakers sound alarm on ICE ‘ghost flights,’ missing aviation data

The 32-member group called for clarity on the DHS unit’s use of the Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed program and additional data-suppression methods.
Surveillance towers stand between new sections of the primary and secondary steel bollard-style border wall along the US-Mexico border on May 10, 2021 in San Diego County, California. US-Mexico frontier. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

DHS moves forward on autonomous surveillance towers at the border

The agency has had four vendors pass an "autonomy test," Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said during a budget hearing Thursday.
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An ICE agent stands alongside a long line of travelers waiting to pass through a TSA Checkpoint at the Philadelphia International Airport on March 28, 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images)

ICE credits technology, data-sharing for exceeding arrest goals

The Department of Homeland Security unit increased its annual target of arrests of individuals with criminal history or pending charges after more than doubling its 2025 goal.
DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement in the Rayburn House Office Building on July 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

White House wants to downsize DHS inspector general office

The proposed fiscal year 2027 spending package would trim funding of the key oversight unit at a time when calls for accountability and transparency at DHS are…
A group of ICE agents walk around Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on March 25, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. The travel disruptions continue as hundreds of TSA agents quit or work without pay during a partial government shutdown. U.S. President Donald Trump said ICE agents will be deployed to U.S. airports on Monday, with border czar Tom Homan in charge of the effort.(Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images)

TSA official blames shutdown for stalled tech efforts, praises ICE for airport assists

The acting director said the DHS funding lapse has delayed IT projects and led to ICE performing ID verification tasks.
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