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  • Border Surveillance Policy and the Transformation of Public Freedom

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    Border surveillance policy now shapes public freedom, turning mobility into a transaction governed by data. The proposed expansion of U.S. entry requirements for foreign visitors, particularly those from visa-waiver countries, has been widely discussed as a free-speech issue. That concern is legitimate, but it is incomplete. From a policy and political-economy perspective, the more profound…

  • Operation Midway Blitz and the Architecture of Fear

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    ChatGPT said: Operation Midway Blitz: America’s Internal Empire of Fear — how DHS turned cities into battlefields. The Anatomy of a Manufactured Crisis “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago reveals not a campaign of law enforcement but a theatre of control, a ritual performance of state power meant to redefine who counts as “the public.” According…

  • U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): Origins, Mission, Money, Results and the Questions that Follow

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    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): origins, mission, budget, results, and impact today. Created in the anxious afterglow of September 11, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was designed to be the interior, investigative, and removal arm of a newly consolidated homeland security state. Two decades on, ICE is both sprawling and contested: a criminal-investigations…

  • Palantir Technologies: Power, Secrecy, and the Politics of Prediction

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    Palantir Technologies shapes power through data, raising questions about secrecy and democracy. Introduction Palantir Technologies sells something simple to say but powerful to use: turn oceans of messy data into decisions. Police forces use it to map crime networks. Immigration officers use it to track and remove people. Armies use it to plan missions. Hospitals…