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Mobile Fortify

United States government immigration enforcement app

Fact-Checks

5 results

Nov 24, 2025

Can ICE demand proof of citizenship from U.S. citizens during routine encounters?

ICE can — and does — try to verify a person’s immigration status during encounters, and guidance and ICE policy discuss assessing potential U.S. citizenship and seeking “probative evidence” such as pa...

Jan 12, 2026

Is Ice using technology to track residents in neighborhoods and facial recognition software to identify people

Yes—reporting documents that ICE has acquired and deployed a range of technologies that can identify people with facial-recognition tools and extend surveillance into communities via location and biom...

Jan 26, 2026

what are the issues with ICE and the technology surveillance methods they have used.

has rapidly expanded purchases and deployment of commercial and biometric surveillance tools—spanning location-data brokers, social-media monitoring, facial and iris recognition, license-plate readers...

Feb 3, 2026

How has ICE’s use of surveillance technology changed its operational footprint across states since 2017?

Since 2017 ’s surveillance footprint has shifted from episodic, localized tools toward a denser, vendor-driven, and ecosystemic model that combines biometrics, social‑media mining, cell‑site simulator...

Nov 12, 2025

What technologies does CBP use for border facial recognition?

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) uses a mix of cloud‑based biometric services, airport and field camera systems, and mobile biometric apps to perform facial recognition at ports of entry and i...