Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is on a surveillance spending spree: • The agency is using much of its windfall from this summer's "big beautiful bill" to fund a major expansion of biometric identification, cellphone tracking and other electronic capabilities.

Why it matters: The megabill's $75 billion cash infusion for ICE was sold by Congress as a way to speed up hiring new agents and adding detention space. But ICE is also going big on surveillance.

The new surveillance spending includes: • A contract with Clearview AI, which provides a facial recognition algorithm. • A multimillion-dollar contract with BI² for its biometric data system I.R.I.S., which promises a real-time identification of a person after taking a photo of their eye, according to the company website.

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