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Project Salt Box, Michael Wriston, Mia Barragán, Em ChapinInvestigative reporting on the money and contracts behind immigration detention, grounded in the public record.
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USCIS seeks contractors to build criminal intelligence unit and informant records system
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin tours U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Camp Springs, M.D., May 29, 2026. (DHS photo by Mikaela McGee)
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is seeking contractors to help buil...
Homeland Security eyes no-bid deal for AI-assisted search of billions of communication records
The Department of Homeland Security plans to give a Nebraska company a no-bid contract for software meant to let federal agents search billions of wiretap, phone, and location records, according to a notice posted Wednesday.
Agents using t...
Follow the Money - September 2026: ICE and CBP End Fiscal Year Investing Billions into Border and Detention Construction Projects
Data from USASpending.gov includes prime contract awards and modifications.
Bottom Line Up Front
ICE establishes its own detention construction contracts: ICE signed seven contracts with a combined ceiling of around $8 billion for con...
Proposed AI surveillance system would track what ICE detainees say, who they talk to, and how they behave
Photo: Alex Knight on Unsplash
Phone calls, messages, and video visits from people in immigration detention could soon feed a single AI-powered system that builds voice profiles, interprets slang, and maps whom detainees talk to and spend...
GSA signs $51 million in San Antonio office leases linked to ICE
A rendering of the WatersEdge office complex at Brooks, a redevelopment of the former Brooks Air Force Base in Southeast San Antonio. The General Services Administration awarded two leases worth $51.2 million to a company that lists its add...
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Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts.
Independent data journalist and erstwhile photographer based in Baltimore, MD. Forever enamored by the liminal, the misunderstood, and the unconventional. Public record enthusiast at Project Salt Box. Views are my own.
Migrant, total liberationist, aspiring polyglot. Ardently, quietly, etc.
Independent researcher and writer with a focus on immigration enforcement and federal procurement. Views are my own.
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