Good News: ICE Is Tracking Illegal Aliens Through Massive License Plate Database

ICE should be using every method possible to track down, catch, and deport all illegals

ICE Tracking Immigrants with Huge License Plate Database

ICE is watching you. Or at least there’s a good chance it is, according to a new report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

The nonprofit released documents detailing the existence of a large, privately maintained database tracking license plate numbers and driver location data, which ICE—Immigration and Customs Enforcement—is using to find those who might be in the U.S. illegally.

Maintained by Vigilant Solutions, the system contains billions of location points now available to the agency on a $6.1 million contract.

“ICE has long embraced technology to target immigrants,” writes ACLU attorney Vasudha Talla. “Now it’s taking surveillance to an unprecedented level to target vulnerable communities—and sweeping up everyone else in the process.

The database includes billions of of records, used to track criminals.

More than 9,000 ICE agents have access to the information, raising concerns over the privacy and civil liberty implications—not only for the immigrants tracked by ICE, but also for the millions of drivers whose personal details are at their disposal.

The agency does not use information to find individuals “who have no connection to ICE investigatory or enforcement activities,” ICE spokesman Matthew Bourke tells The Washington Post. But police departments—which can also buy access to the database—have famously abused location data in the past to track acquantainces, lovers, and journalists, among others.

Well, perhaps it has been abused, but, no one has accused anyone in ICE of using it improperly, and if they can use it to catch illegals, great. Why are illegals driving in the first place? Why are states giving them official documents, driver’s licenses, which give them legal status? They shouldn’t be here killing Americans

(Fox10) A 16 year old illegal immigrant who is accused of causing a crash that killed a local woman was back in court Monday, this time with an interpreter.

Domingo Marcos Diego is charged with vehicular homicide and leaving the the accident scene.

The victim was Sonya Jones, a local teacher.

Friends and family members were in court Monday.

Authorities say Marcos Diego crossed the center turn lane on Highway 98 in Semmes last week and ran into Jones’ car head on.

He was denied bond, because, otherwise, ICE could pick him up and deport him. Though they usually let the justice system deal with these types of scumbags.