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ICE Accused of Vast Anti-Left Surveillance Operation
Original: ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History
WIRED reports that ICE's Homeland Security Investigations unit is conducting sweeping surveillance of left-wing activists, an operation described as rivaling the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the civil rights and anti-war movements. The claim that a homeland security agency is monitoring political activists on this scale is drawing alarm and prompting comparisons to historic abuses of government spying powers.
Why now: The scale of domestic political surveillance alleged against a federal immigration agency is an unprecedented and alarming claim.
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- ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History · WIRED
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.
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