Whitney Curry Wimbish

Also related to ICE and crediting our friend Egberto Willis, who does the morning show on KPFT radio in Houston for the tip on a massive new intelligence infiltration push that's being fast-tracked into action by the Trump administration.

Whitney Curry Wimbish at the American Prospect says DHS and ICE are accelerating a $100 million domestic surveillance initiative that they're calling ERO-1.

including the deployment of 142 top-secret cleared intelligence agents across more than two dozen major U.S. cities, including Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, and Harlingen.

Under the guise of national security, this program will be authorized to conduct extensive link and network analysis probing into deep relational webs that encompass family, neighbors, and daily associates of their supposed immigration-related target subjects." ERO-1 is being presented as a tool for immigration enforcement, but civil liberties advocates and former intelligence analysts are sounding the alarm that this infrastructure will in reality take the form of a sweeping internal spying apparatus with dangerously broad parameters, including the expansion of mass surveillance far beyond just our vulnerable immigrant communities.