The Bush administration created the DHS shortly after 9/11, and companies such as Microsoft and LexisNexis leveraged the crisis to position themselves as “key partners” to the government, pushing for militarized counterterrorism technologies.
“This counterterrorism apparatus has exploded and ballooned to the point that everything feels like counterterrorism now,” Panjwani said.
Since its founding, DHS has relied on a state of “emergency” to carry out its operations. Twenty years later, this state of “emergency” has not ended and immigration policing, “national security,” and surveillance have become big business. Our report investigates how DHS funding and corporations drive demand for “homeland security,” expanding militarized policing in our communities.
Of major concern to civil liberties groups are “data brokers” and law enforcement “fusion centers,” which provide and analyze huge amounts of personal and location data to build the digital police state’s backbone far from public view.
With law enforcement notorious for resisting information requests, the entirety of what goes on at fusion centers remains unknown.
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