Kat Lonsdorf, Jude Joffe-Block, and Meg Anderson reporting for NPR:

On an evening in late January, Emily was driving through her Minneapolis neighborhood doing something that had become part of her routine in recent weeks: patrolling for ICE.

Emily, who NPR is only identifying by her first name because she fears retribution from the federal government, says she followed an ICE vehicle at a safe distance into a parking lot. “And then someone leaned out of the passenger side of that SUV and took a picture of me and my car,” she says.

Emily says she decided to leave at that point, but the SUV made a sudden U-turn and barreled towards her, braking next to her driver’s side window. A female agent wearing a gaiter-style mask rolled down the window, leaned out — and addressed Emily by name.

“She yelled, ‘Emily, Emily, we’re going to take you home!’ Then she looked at her phone and she recited my home address,” she says.

Not only is this intimidation by DHS agents abhorrent, but their use of surveillance tools in this manner would be a blatant violation of our First and Fourth Amendments—an abuse of power that demands investigation and eventual prosecution.

The tools enabling these terroristic tactics are created by companies like Flock, Clearview AI, and Palantir; are powered by the enormous amount of data these and other companies (like Meta, Google, TikTok) and the government have collected about us; are packaged up and sold by data brokers; and then bought by American agencies with American taxpayer money to menace Americans. Shut it all down.