2-3 Minute Speech Script - Speaking to Elected Representatives
Intelligence Brief: Digital Dragnet: How ICE Created a Warrantless Surveillance State
Read at a calm, deliberate pace. Do not rush.
My name is [First Name], and I am a resident of [City/Town].
I am here today to present documented intelligence from Unruled Masses regarding a verified and ongoing pattern of abuse: the construction of a warrantless surveillance state by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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According to reporting by 404 Media and Wired, ICE has purchased a tool called "Webloc" from a company called Penlink. This tool uses location data harvested from ordinary apps on your phone — weather, shopping, navigation — to track individuals across entire neighborhoods. Without a warrant. Without a judge's approval. The data is simply purchased from private brokers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation calls this a "surveillance shopping spree."
A leaked 2025 memorandum, documented by JDSupra and the National Immigration Project, reveals that ICE has authorized agents to forcibly enter private homes using an administrative form called Form I-205 — a document no judge has ever reviewed — instructing officers to use "reasonable force" if denied entry. The Fourth Amendment has not been suspended. It is being bypassed.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation and FedScoop, ICE has entered formal agreements with the IRS, the Social Security Administration, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Enrolling in Medicaid or filing your taxes can now be used to locate and deport you. Information that people provided to access basic public services has been converted into an enforcement asset.
According to NPR, ICE officers are collecting DNA samples from protesters and legal observers during enforcement operations. That genetic data enters the FBI's national database — permanently. Going to watch a demonstration is now enough to be biometrically tracked for life.
And according to K-12 Dive and Zeteo, student records — including university enrollment data accessed through the federal SEVIS system — are being used for enforcement purposes, without notice and without due process.
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The U.S. Senate's own Church Committee documented how the FBI's COINTELPRO program surveilled peaceful civil rights activists for years before it was exposed and shut down. A peer-reviewed study in the Journal of the European Economic Association found that East Germany's Stasi surveillance caused lasting economic harm and the collapse of social trust that persisted for decades after the regime fell. We know what surveillance states do to societies. We are watching it happen again.
This surveillance is operating in your community. In your neighborhoods. In your schools. Right now. This body has both the standing and the obligation to respond.
[CITY COUNCIL VERSION]
I am asking this council to pass a resolution requiring any federal agency operating surveillance technology — including phone location tracking, vehicle tracking networks, and facial recognition systems — within city limits to disclose that activity to this body. I am asking you to audit all data-sharing agreements between city departments and federal enforcement agencies. And I am asking you to prohibit city resources, personnel, or infrastructure from supporting warrantless federal surveillance operations. The public can no longer accept a status quo in which our movements, our health records, and our children's data are treated as open intelligence files. We need action from this council today.
[SCHOOL BOARD VERSION]
I am asking this board to immediately audit what student data this district shares — directly or indirectly — with federal agencies, and to adopt a formal policy prohibiting the transfer of student records for immigration enforcement purposes. Every family in this district has a right to know that enrolling their child in school does not make that child a surveillance target. That right is not currently guaranteed. This board has the authority — and the obligation — to guarantee it.
[STATE LEGISLATURE VERSION]
I am asking this body to introduce legislation establishing a warrant requirement before any state agency or private vendor may share location, health, vehicle, or student data with federal enforcement agencies. I am also asking for a formal legislative investigation into existing data-sharing agreements between state agencies and ICE — including those involving the IRS, the SSA, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The residents of this state did not consent to having their medical records, their daily movements, and their genetic profiles converted into enforcement tools. You have the authority to stop it. The public demands that you use it.
[TOWN HALL WITH ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE VERSION]
I am asking you, as my elected representative, to co-sponsor federal legislation closing the commercial data-broker loophole that allows agencies to purchase location and vehicle tracking data without a judicial warrant. I am asking you to call for a congressional investigation into ICE's data-sharing agreements with the IRS, the SSA, and the CMS. And I am asking you to take action on the documented collection of DNA from protesters and legal observers — American citizens exercising their constitutional rights. These are documented abuses. They are happening now, in communities like this one. The public can no longer accept silence as a response. We are asking you to act.
Submitted for the public record by [Your Name], [City/Town], [Date].
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Sources Referenced
404 Media
https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/
Wired
https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-ice-can-now-spy-on-every-phone-in-your-neighborhood/
Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/ice-going-surveillance-shopping-spree
JDSupra
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/leaked-ice-memo-claims-authority-to-2520153/
National Immigration Project
https://nipnlg.org/sites/default/files/2026-01/Administrative-Warrant-Community-FAQ.pdf
KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation)
https://www.kff.org/immigrant-health/potential-implications-of-the-new-medicaid-data-sharing-agreement-between-cms-and-ice/
FedScoop
https://fedscoop.com/dhs-ice-data-sharing-gathering-warrantless-purchase/
NPR
https://www.wfdd.org/2026-03-19/ice-officers-are-taking-dna-samples-from-protesters-theyve-arrested
K-12 Dive
https://www.k12dive.com/news/ice-activity-on-k-12-school-grounds/810648/
Zeteo
https://zeteo.com/p/ice-manually-revoking-university-students-residency-status-middle-east
U.S. Senate — Church Committee
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/church-committee.htm
Journal of the European Economic Association (Oxford Academic)
https://academic.oup.com/jeea/article/19/2/741/5823502