1. United States
2. Pa.
3. Letter

You raise important concerns about protecting the constitutional rights of all people in the United States. The recent Georgetown report on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surveillance tactics is deeply troubling. It reveals how ICE has constructed a vast dragnet to collect personal data on hundreds of millions of Americans, often circumventing state privacy laws and without proper oversight or accountability. The sheer scale of ICE's surveillance overreach is staggering - the agency has obtained driver's license data on 3 out of 4 adults, used facial recognition on 1 in 3 driver's licenses, can track vehicle movements for 3 in 4 adults, and access utility records for 3 in 4 adults. This appears to go well beyond ICE's immigration enforcement mandate, infringing on the privacy and civil liberties of ordinary Americans. Such unrestrained government surveillance raises serious Fourth Amendment concerns about unreasonable searches and seizures without warrants or probable cause. It's critical that we have robust legal protections and limitations on how law enforcement and intelligence agencies can monitor the activities and communications of U.S. citizens and residents. I urge you to support measures to increase oversight and impose strict limits on ICE's surveillance powers. Congress must act to protect the constitutional rights to privacy and due process for all people. Unchecked government monitoring jeopardizes core democratic freedoms and principles. We cannot allow any agency to construct an omnipresent domestic surveillance apparatus that violates civil liberties on a massive scale.