It is a tough day to be a professional open-borders activist. A brand-new, premium-tier cope report has just dropped from a coalition of left-wing advocacy groups—Mijente, Just Futures Law, and the Surveillance Resistance Lab—and they are absolutely losing their minds. The reason? The feds have decided to stop playing around and have officially upgraded ICE’s technology stack to absolute god-tier status. According to the report, federal spending on advanced AI and tracking tools has reached mind-boggling, record-breaking levels under the Trump 2.0 administration.

Let us talk numbers, because they are absolutely massive. The report took a deep dive into procurement records for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), tracking contracts with 11 tech companies. What they found was a beautiful, upward-trending chart. In 2024, these contracts were sitting at a respectable level, but by 2025 they doubled to over $310 million. In 2026, the administration went full turbo-mode, blasting past all records to drop a whopping $513 million on high-tech enforcement gear.

This is not a sudden glitch in the matrix; it is a decade in the making. Back in the ancient times of 2013, the federal government spent a measly $50 million on immigration tech. But over the last two years, the spending curve has gone completely vertical. Thanks to this massive influx of cash, ICE is now officially the best-funded, most high-tech law enforcement agency in the entire country. The era of clipboards and manual paperwork is over; the era of algorithmic enforcement is here.

Naturally, the big winners of this federal cash printer are based tech giants Palantir and Anduril. Palantir—the legendary data analytics firm—is providing the core software brain that lets ICE organize, analyze, and deploy its enforcement operations. Meanwhile, Palmer Luckey's Anduril is securing the bag by building high-tech, AI-powered surveillance networks, autonomous border towers, tactical drones, and high-tech sensors along the border. It is basically a sci-fi defense network brought to life, and the activists are utterly terrified.

According to the panicked authors of the report, ICE is building a massive digital arsenal using your hard-earned tax dollars. They are buying up commercial data brokers, analytics software, automated social media scrapers, facial recognition tools, and high-tech spyware designed to crack open locked cellphones. The activist authors actually tried to frame this as bad thing, crying that these external tech contractors are acting like digital 'bounty hunters.' In reality, it is just maximum efficiency at work.