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ICE Is Scanning Civilians’ Faces, Telling Them They’re Being Entered Into a Terrorism Database

Joe Wilkins

created: Jan. 24, 2026, 11:45 a.m. | updated: Feb. 3, 2026, 11:07 a.m.

In case you needed further evidence that we’re living in the worst version of a cyberpunk dystopia, immigration officers are now scanning civilians’ faces to index them in a government database. “It’s not illegal to record,” the woman filming the ICE agents says after the agent points his phone at her. The officer responds: “because we have a nice little database, and now you’re considered domestic terrorists.”“For video taping you? 🚨 HOLY SMOKES: ICE agents in Maine just photographed a civilian’s face and name and said they’re putting it in a database. pic.twitter.com/68dEiVd2wa — Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) January 23, 2026Whether the two were actually registered in an ICE database is unclear.

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