4+ hour, 10+ min ago   (619+ words) On the home front, the Patriot Act forged new mechanisms of surveillance — a “naked power grab by the government itself,” according to the bill’s lone opponent in congress, Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin. But America was licking its wounds and…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (550+ words) Yesterday, we submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Department of Homeland Security Office of Public Affairs concerning an AI-generated meme shared to the official @DHSgov X account. DHS deleted the post today, after criticism from Sikh…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (379+ words) The federal government signed a $9,975,502.40 contract on Sept. 4 to keep security, power and fire-detection systems running at a vacant warehouse outside Williamsport, Md. A federal judge barred the site from opening as a 1,500-bed immigration detention center five months earlier, and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1388+ words) About 40 companies joined an open call with the Office of Refugee Resettlement, or ORR, on Aug. 18 to hear whether they could support a federal request for emergency housing for a potential influx of migrant children. The office is searching for…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (523+ words) Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded GardaWorld Federal Services a contract worth up to $382 million to provide armed, around-the-clock ground transportation for people taken into custody under the 287(g) program in all 254 Texas counties. The award, posted to SAM.gov on Monday…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago   (1669+ words) Editor’s Note: This is a long story. If your email client doesn’t display the full article, please follow the link to read it in full at projectsaltbox.com. A federal contract solicitation posted Friday lays out, in more detail than…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (333+ words) Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed $57.1 million in new skip tracing orders on Wednesday with 14 private companies hired to track down immigrants, according to contracting records reviewed by Project Salt Box. Scripps News reported in January that the contracts allow bonuses…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (773+ words) Homeland Security Investigations, the investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is seeking a private contractor to buy voter registration and voter history files from as many as all 50 states on its behalf. A request for information is a market…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (378+ words) Customs and Border Protection awarded contracts today to four companies to collect immigration fines from people the United States has deported, ending a competition that closed earlier this month after an unusually brief bidding period. Each contract is capped at…...