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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing, well we're discussing they are using AI and bounty hunters on Immigrants in the United States. I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from, actually this is from the American Immigration Council and that is americanimmigrationcouncil.org, under the title: ICE's Private Bounty Hunters Use AI to Track Immigrants. Quoting directly: "The Federal Government's hunt for immigrants is ramping up. Each month, private contractors receive tens of thousands of names from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and are asked to locate those individuals as quickly as possible so that ICE can conduct targeting enforcement operations to arrest and detain those individuals. What makes this system new is not just its scale - contractors may receive up to 50,000 names per month" - think about that for a minute. 50,000 names! And don't get me wrong. I made videos. I was concerned about the state of the open border in the United States and the fact that effectively the United States was under what can only be described as de facto invasion. That said, a lot of this is dystopian and scary because what they start using in one area, they can start using everywhere. I think people might get complacent and say, “Well they're just using it on illegal aliens". Well yeah, they could also use it on anybody. 

I also saw something interesting the other day on Twitter. There was a post and a guy was talking about, the problem is if they just say you are not a citizen and effectively deny you due process, what happens then? What if you are? And this has happened. ICE has detained people that were actually Americans. People they had no right to detain and frankly that gets into like posse comitatus. That gets into all sorts of, at the end of the day it gets into the whole issue of 'produce the body' as it were - habeas corpus. The notion that hey you can't just throw people in jail for no reason. Again, if they are an illegal alien, that's one thing. Again, but the tech here is what I'm talking about, and the ramifications of the technology is what I'm talking about. So what are we saying there? 

Well look, I've done another video recently made contemporaneously with this one where we were talking about AI facial recognition being used to pick up some overstayer on the streets in Phuket. I mean again that person was in violation of the law; they don't have unfettered right to be in Thailand, so the outcome is not necessarily inappropriate from a legal sense, but it's the tech I'm talking about. What they start using for one group can be used for everybody. Quoting further: "with the program potentially targeting more than 1 million people - but how it is achieved. Contractors are using a mix of data tools, online research, and, increasingly, Artificial Intelligence to locate people - allowing for a faster and much larger sweep than before. This is called skip tracing: finding someone using public records, databases, online information, and, sometimes, physical surveillance. ICE skip tracing involves using government data, online research, and in-person verification - such as taking photos of a person's home or workplace - to confirm their whereabouts. Zoom out, and it reveals a massive AI assisted surveillance system targeting more than 1 million immigrants in the United States." And the irony also here - and this is something that came up in the first Trump Administration, and now we're dealing with it again - is the people that will be most affected by this I expect will actually be legal immigrants because they are the ones that have their data already in the system because they put it their voluntarily because they wanted to get into America; biometrics, the whole bit. Then the question becomes, why are we targeting them? Again, this doesn't seem like maybe it's fit to purpose for actual illegal aliens because did people that actually came over the Border during the Biden Administration when it was wide open, check in and do their biometrics? I would presume not. There may be a few that they got. Maybe they had camera footage or something that they can cross-reference. I go to that movie Eagle Eye - I might even use a frame from that movie for a thumbnail for this video where you see this sort of AI system turn on. Actually that's one of Shia LaBeouf's best movies frankly; he's quite good in that movie. He is good in a lot of stuff, but that one especially, he really kind of nailed it home. I felt like that role got well played. But it's the notion that this ever present, nearly omnipresent panopticon-like technology is again, they say, "oh it's only for immigrants", now but how would we know if it was used otherwise; it's very disturbing stuff. 

Quoting further: "Reporting by Scripps News found that ICE awarded contracts to 13 private companies to provide "skip tracing services nationwide." These open-ended contracts were issued in December 2025 and could total $1.2 billion over two years. The intercept estimated that up to 1.5 million immigrants could be targeted using a mix of digital tools and in-person surveillance." So on top of this, the government is hiring bounty hunters to like to go after these folks. 

On a certain level, let me be clear, I'm for that. I do think that these folks that just completely disregarded American Immigration Laws were criminal from the moment that they entered the country. They are illegal aliens; that's their legal definition. That said, again these methods, this technology, this is concerning stuff, and again what they can do to one group, could later be turned around to be used on somebody else. So it remains to be seen how all this plays out. We will certainly be keeping folks updated on this channel as the situation evolves.