The article explores the Trump administration’s increasing reliance on artificial intelligence and surveillance technologies to monitor, track, and arrest immigrants in the United States. Agencies such as DHS and CBP are deploying facial recognition, social media monitoring, robotic patrols, and large-scale data aggregation, sometimes in partnership with private contractors. Critics warn that expanding these technologies without adequate oversight raises serious risks for privacy and accuracy, with U.S. citizens occasionally wrongly ensnared. Digital rights advocates and legal experts highlight concerns over civil rights violations, the potential misuse of AI’s fallible results, and the broad reach of these systems into the lives of all Americans, not just immigrants. New initiatives like the “Catch and Revoke” program further expand surveillance and punitive measures, while executive orders enable local enforcement agencies to access federal AI tools, amplifying the net cast by these technologies.
