DHS Will Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Feed ICE Your Ethnicity and Chase 99 Cases
DHS is paying data broker Thomson Reuters $125 million to feed ICE names, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social posts, and geolocation to hunt a voter fraud that produced 99 cases over 43 years.
"Thomson Reuters is able to let ICE continuously monitor millions of people and entities of interest."
404 Media, Joseph Cox
Procurement documents reviewed by 404 Media show DHS plans to hand data broker Thomson Reuters $125 million so ICE can continuously monitor millions of people, using names, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation, to chase what the paperwork calls “voters fraud.” The Heritage Foundation, a conservative shop that wants to find this stuff, logged 99 documented cases of noncitizen voting between 1982 and 2025, so the math is a surveillance dragnet priced at more than a million dollars per hypothetical fraudster. Thomson Reuters says it prohibits using its CLEAR product to locate noncitizens for deportation on immigration status alone, which is a fine sentence to read while its buyer describes wanting the data for exactly immigration fraud enforcement. 404 Media on the ICE data-broker deal
Source: 404 Media, Joseph Cox · Joseph Cox
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