ICE + AI Surveillance
From Slave Catchers to Flock Cameras:
The Continuum of American State Violence
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📜 The Historical Continuum
Hunting racialized bodies
Protecting "white property"
This is specifically American violence with roots in slavery.
📜 Escalation Timeline
Border militarization begins
ICE access to local arrests
Digital surveillance infrastructure
📷 Present Day: 2025
License plate tracking
Automated deportation pipeline
No warrants, no consent
🎥 How Flock + ICE Works
💰 Follow the Money
Investors (Thiel, Andreessen Horowitz)
Private prison companies
Defense contractors
Communities terrorized
People deported to danger
Children orphaned
This is racial capitalism: profiting from racialized state violence
📚 Research Framework
THEORY (WHY?)
📖 Simone Browne — "Dark Matters" 📖 Nick Estes — "Our History Is the Future" 📖 Ruth Wilson Gilmore — "Golden Gulag"EVIDENCE (WHAT?)
🔍 FOIA Flock contracts from local PD 🗺️ Map camera locations (Atlas of Surveillance) 📊 Georgetown: "American Dragnet" reportRESISTANCE (HOW?)
✊ Mijente — No Tech for ICE campaign ✊ United We Dream — Know Your Rights ✊ Immigrant Defense Project resources🔗 Essential Sources
💡 The Core Argument
"This is like Nazi Germany"
"Better AI will fix it"
"We just need regulation"
"Slave patrols → ICE raids"
"Tech makes it WORSE, not better"
"Must ABOLISH, not reform"
The problem isn't the algorithm's accuracy.
The problem is using ANY technology to hunt and deport people.
✊ Research Action Plan
Map cameras in immigrant neighborhoods
Count arrests linked to surveillance
Interview people who've been tracked
This is AMERICAN violence, not imported
Each era adapts tech to the same purpose
Don't speak FOR — amplify those targeted
Provide practical resistance tools
Dismantle ICE + surveillance infrastructure
Community safety without state violence
🎯 Why This Matters NOW
People are being raided TODAY.
Families are being separated NOW.
Your research isn't just academic.
It can save lives.
Your strongest insight:
Connecting AI surveillance to Slave Catchers.
That's the framework. Build everything from there.
Must abolish, not reform.
✊ Research with communities, not on them ✊
🖋 Author Bio
Anastasia Garcia holds a Master of Arts in English Literature from San Francisco State University. She is a current PhD student at Washington State University studying the impact of genocide on literature, with a special interest in Native American Literature and Jewish Literature.