Washington, March 4 -- Congresswoman Veronica Escobar issued the following press release:
Yesterday, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) and over 70 Democrats, led by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representative Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), called for a new investigation of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), over warrantless purchases of Americans' location data.
The members called on DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari to investigate ICE and other DHS agencies restarting warrantless purchases of Americans' location data. The DHS Inspector General previously found (https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2023-09/OIG-23-61-Sep23-Redacted.pdf) that ICE's data purc...