For years, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes defended the Transaction Record Analysis Center, a secretive financial surveillance program that tracks wire transfers between the U.S. and Mexico sent via Western Union and other companies. As recently as April, in response to The Intercept’s reporting, her office brushed off fears that the Trump administration might use TRAC data to hit its deportation quotas.

“To our understanding there is nothing in the data TRAC collects that provides information on an individual’s immigration status,” said Mayes’s spokesperson, Richie Taylor, in an email in April, “and TRAC data is used exclusively for money laundering investigations.”

But earlier this summer, after The Intercept filed a public records lawsuit for documents about TRAC, Mayes took

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