Shane Shifflett, Hannah Critchfield and Alexandra Citrin-Safadi:
iz McLellan took this photo of federal immigration agents making an arrest on Jan. 21 in Westbrook, Maine. Then an agent held up his phone to McLellan’s face. Agents went to McLellan’s house not long after. Liz McLellan
In the battle against illegal immigration, the U.S. is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on tools that give federal agents easy access to the home and workplace addresses of American citizens, their social-media accounts, vehicle information, flight history, law-enforcement records and other personal information, as well as data to track their daily comings and goings, The Wall Street Journal found.This newly expanded domestic surveillance system, a high-tech dragnet built to locate, track and deport people residing illegally in the U.S., allows thousands of federal agents nationwide to peruse a trove of data belonging to more than 300 million people, including citizens.