Defend Americans Against Government Surveillance

I am writing as a constituent to urge you to immediately introduce and support legislation that protects the American people from unwarranted government surveillance. Recent reports from the Brennan Center for Justice raise deeply troubling concerns that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies are expanding their surveillance powers far beyond immigration enforcement. ICE has procured tools capable of tracking cell phones, scanning social media, purchasing troves of commercial data, identifying people through facial recognition, and monitoring protected political activity — all without meaningful oversight, transparency, or clear legal limits. No federal agency should have the unchecked authority to gather sensitive information about Americans who have not committed a crime, nor should any agency have the power to monitor journalists, advocates, protesters, or community members engaged in lawful dissent. This kind of broad data surveillance is incompatible with the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, and the fundamental expectation of freedom from government intrusion. I am asking you to take clear and decisive action: 1. Introduce or support legislation that places strict limits on government collection of social-media data, commercial data, geolocation records, and biometric information without a warrant. 2. Require full transparency and public reporting on federal surveillance contracts and technologies. 3. Mandate judicial oversight for any use of invasive digital tools, including facial recognition, cell-site simulators, and mass-data analytics. 4. Prohibit the use of federal surveillance to monitor or track lawful political dissent, protest activity, or community advocacy. 5. Establish penalties and remedies for misuse of data or violations of constitutional rights. Americans should be able to express their views, organize, protest, and simply live their lives without the fear that their own government is secretly tracking them. Expanded federal surveillance without guardrails is a direct threat to democracy and civil liberties. Please make this a priority. We need proactive legislation—not reactive damage control after rights have already been violated.