ICE Power and Accountability

Power should leave a record. Harm should have a name attached to it.

This expanded edition follows one question through the federal government: can the public trace a harmful decision to the people who made it?

Armando Oscar Olmos and Maria Teresa Zambrano Islas examine:
• AI surveillance, facial recognition in the field, and the use of Social Security and voter records
• A president's criminal convictions and the ethics of the Supreme Court
• Voting power, poverty, and quality of life across the states
• Mass federal layoffs and the dismantling of USAID and FEMA capacity
• The FBI under Kash Patel and the handling of the Epstein files
• Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, Gregory Bovino, Stephen Miller, and immigration command responsibility
• Medical care at the border, alternatives to detention, and the right to counsel and interpreters

The final chapters set out a reform program: a 22-justice Supreme Court with twelve-year terms, 25 federal circuits, one House member for every 300,000 residents, one senator for every 10 million, statehood for Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, labor rights, immigration reform, and fair taxation.

Updated through October 2026 with the words of families, judges, lawmakers, and officials, and with numbered references to public records and journalism. Allegations are labeled as allegations, and the authors' judgments are labeled as theirs.

A companion to ICE Unleashed With No Accountability.