U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been using LexisNexis much, much more than it’s told the public, according to a new report from Mijente and Just Futures Law. ICE has said it only searches LexisNexis’s extensive databases when researching people with “serious criminal backgrounds” — but the agency has actually been conducting millions of searches.
Over a seven-month period, ICE completed roughly 1.2 million LexisNexis searches, according to a report shared with The Information. One user conducted more than 26,000 searches on their own. That’s less of an every-once-in-a-while-when-necessary type of thing and more of a total-mass-surveillance operation.
