Surveillance
Our Immigration Police State
As I have long argued, a system of immigration controls necessarily comes with an immigration police state. Warrantless searches of farms and ranches near the border. Domestic highway checkpoints. Roving Border Patrol checkpoints. Immigration raids on private...
Rhode Island Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Bill to Put Limits on Warrantless Electronic Data Collection and Hinder Federal Surveillance
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (May 9, 2022) – Last week, a Rhode Island Senate committee held a hearing on a bill that would ban the warrantless collection of electronic data and the use of “stingrays” to track the location of phones and sweep up electronic communications in most...
Fusion Centers Facilitate Spying on Everybody
Fusion centers were sold to the public as state-federal partnerships to go after “the terrorists.” But to keep their budgets flowing, they’ve shifted over the years to other mass surveillance programs, like the war on drugs, or keeping illegal...
Stolen Loot, Secret Spending and Stingray Surveillance
Asset forfeiture, federal equitable sharing funds, secret warrantless surveillance and more. All unconstitutional – and all in a day’s work for a corrupt law enforcement agency. Path to Liberty: April 6, 2022...