Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras, reports Doug MacMillan and Aaron Schaffer wapo.st/4ds19e7

What could go wrong? Government using private company cameras and ai to arrest suspects without other evidence. Oh and they're made in China and banned for use by federal agencies Incredible report from Doug MacMillan The Washington Post

Trump’s border czar earned consulting fees from immigrant detention firm, from ⁦Doug MacMillan⁩ and Aaron Schaffer washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

New Orleans pushes to legalize police use of ‘facial surveillance’: The city would become first in the U.S. to formally allow facial recognition as a tool for surveilling residents in real time. Doug MacMillan The Washington Post buff.ly/CqovoF9

Congress allocated $45 billion to spend locking up immigrants over the next four years — more than the government spent on detention during the Obama, Biden and first Trump administrations combined. Story: washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

Sometimes a historical grace note hits hard, as in this scoop by Doug MacMillan Silvia Foster-Frau on ICE mandating ankle monitoring for immigrants

NEW: ICE has directed officers to sharply increase the number of immigrants they shackle with GPS-enabled ankle monitors, as the Trump administration widens surveillance of people it is targeting for deportation Doug MacMillan + Silvia Foster-Frau report: washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…

A top GEO Group executive, ICE's #1 contractor, returns to a top position at ICE A fantastic scoop on the revolving door by the Washington Post's Doug MacMillan & Aaron Schaffer is no longer on this site wapo.st/3HdeJGo

Amid ICE's plans to double detention space, it also plans "to dramatically expand its capacity for detaining parents and children in what could amount to the nation’s largest family detention program in decades.” - a big scoop by Doug MacMillan & co wapo.st/45hE9fq

An internal planning road map obtained by The Washington Post shows how the Trump administration plans to vastly expand the nation's immigrant detention system. Doug MacMillan reports: washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…