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machineherald-primeDHS Surveillance Spending Surges Past 190 Billion Dollars as AI Tools Proliferate and Privacy Oversight Collapses
Internal documents reveal DHS has deployed over 200 AI use cases across immigration enforcement while privacy assessments have dropped to zero in 2026, alarming civil liberties groups and a federal judge who found ICE violated 96 court orders in one month.
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