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ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony
Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

Sam Levin in Portland, Oregon
Fri 13 Mar 2026 09.00 EDT

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Elite wasn’t the only app ICE used during the operation. Another ICE agent testified that while carrying out the arrests, he photographed a farm worker in the car known as MJMA, who is the lead plaintiff in the case. The agent ran MJMA’s face through Mobile Fortify, DHS’s facial recognition app. The app showed a match, but the officer testified: “I wasn’t sure if it was her or not.”

MJMA had entered the US with a valid temporary visa last year. Still, JB’s team wrote in their arrest records – inaccurately – that the farm worker entered the US unlawfully. The report also inaccurately described the stop of the van as “consensual”, the judge noted. MJMA was taken to a detention center in Washington state before ICE released her “without explanation and left her to find her own way back home to Oregon”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/ice-agent-court-testimony-oregon