Trump’s second term drives a biometric spending boom on the border

In just nine months, facial recognition, mobile fingerprinting, and back-end identity platforms have shifted from pilots and prototypes into an expanding federal infrastructure. What emerges is not only a spending spree, but also a deeper entanglement of lobbying, private surveillance firms, and political messaging designed to cloak enforcement technologies in the language of civic virtue and democratic order.

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