Quote:Lost in all the talk from Trump and his Republican allies about the alleged tax cuts we’ll be getting from the Big Beautiful Bill recently signed into law is how the money financing border control will do little to secure the border but will do plenty to expand and make permanent his dream of creating a biometric digital surveillance state capable of spying on every American.
Many billions of dollars allocated in the bill is specifically earmarked for building digital tracking systems nationwide — mostly under the guise of ‘border security’ — beginning with the monitoring of all major state and federal highways (via BiometricUpdate.com):

The 940-page bill does much more than allocate dollars; it would codify a vision of the national security state where biometric surveillance, AI, and immigration enforcement converge at unprecedented scale.
DHS officials … say the funds are aimed at expanding ICE’s access to mobile biometric tools, integrating facial recognition into field operations, automating risk scoring for individuals in deportation proceedings, and accelerating case processing through AI-driven platforms.
Biometric provisions also extend to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which is slated to receive $6.168 billion for modern surveillance, biometric, and screening technologies. The legislative text outlines the deployment of Autonomous Surveillance Towers (AST) and artificial intelligence for threat detection, language that suggests an operational integration of facial recognition, gait analysis, and predictive behavioral models along the southern border.

Quote:Autonomous towers are equipped with a variety of sensors to detect activity along the southwest border, enhancing surveillance capabilities and providing real-time information to Border Patrol agents. Since 2020, 300 ASTs have been deployed by Anduril, providing approximately 30 percent of the coverage of the U.S. southern land border. [The bill] scales this system up nationally and integrates it with broader DHS surveillance infrastructure.
Under [the bill], CBP would gain broader authority to deploy facial recognition tools at ports of entry and along transportation corridors, in line with DHS’s 2024 strategic plan that envisions end-to-end biometric travel. The plan states that “DHS is aggressively pursuing innovative technologies for detection and strengthening identity verification for travelers within the United States through biometric and biographic techniques and technologies.” While framed as anti-terror and anti-trafficking measures, critics argue the systems normalize mass biometric surveillance with minimal oversight.
In one of the first acts of his second presidential term, Trump was joined by a group of his technocratic buddies in the Roosevelt Room to announce a new vision for America’s role in artificial intelligence: a $500 billion public-private infrastructure initiative known as Stargate. At the heart of this initiative was the creation of new data centers meant to power an explosion in AI technology.
Trump’s announcement was later followed by the appointment of Elon Musk to run the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) where he gave the multi-billionaire complete authority to remove any government agency and/or their employees standing in the way of creating his technocratic dictatorship. DOGE was supposed to lead to massive cuts in government spending, but it was really used to hide Trump’s plan to use it as a way to expand government’s domestic spying capabilities.
Shortly after the 2024 election, I wrote a piece warning that Donald Trump would use his “border emergency” as cover for making biometric digital IDs — a key piece of the surveillance state puzzle — mandatory for every American. Going back to his 2016 campaign and into his first term, we learned how this was his intention all along:
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Quote:“We will finally complete the Biometric Entry/Exit Visa Tracking System which we need desperately. It will be on land, sea, and air. We will have a proper tracking system.”

Quote:Trump and his Republican buddies, who were in control of Congress at the time, attempted to make this tracking system a reality in 2018 when the Republican-controlled House introduced the Securing America’s Future Act of 2018 (H.R.4760), a 400-page monstrosity authored by Rep Bob Goodlatte (R-VA). Encompassing everything from education and the workforce to Homeland Security and the military, this so-called immigration bill contained a tiny little detail about biometric identification in the form of a National ID card that would be required for every American.
H.R.4760 would have given some serious liberty-killing power to Big Brother Washington:

• It would have allowed federal bureaucrats to include biometric identification information on the card, such as: fingerprints, retinal scans, or scans of veins on the back of hands, all of which could easily be used as a tracking device.
  
• It would have empowered government to require every US worker, regardless of their place of birth, to carry the card, and it would have made it illegal for anyone to hold a job in the US if they didn’t obtain the ID card.
  
• It would have required every employer to purchase an “ID scanner” and use it to verify the ID cards with the federal government. Every time an individual applies for a job, the government would know about it.
  

And here’s something to ask yourself: How long do you think it will be before Trump’s biometric digital surveillance state will be controlling our daily lives? Before you answer that question, consider this: the Central Bank Digital Currency currently being pushed by tyrants in both parties in Washington would have that kind of power — making biometric digital IDs a perfect companion to the CBDC and the coming social credit system.
One more point on biometric digital IDs: Donald Trump’s AI Stargate Project has been hailed as the cornerstone of his “Golden Age of America” and the answer to the so-called crisis at the border, but the reality is that these IDs are a fundamental part of complete government control of our daily lives.
In the early debates over the details of the Big Beautiful Bill, it was revealed that Donald Trump would use the “border security” parts of the legislation to massively expand the surveillance state by building a digital biometric tracking system and make it a permanent fixture of life in the United States when US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents put out a call for tech companies to pitch real-time face recognition technology that can capture everyone in a vehicle, and not just those sitting in the front seats (via Wired.com):
United States Customs and Border Protection is asking tech companies to send pitches for a real-time face recognition tool that would take photos of every single person in a vehicle at a border crossing, including anyone in the back seats, and match them to travel documents, according to a document posted in a federal register last week.
The request for information, or RIF, says that CBP already has a face recognition tool that takes a picture of a person at a port of entry and compares it to travel or identity documents that someone gives to a border officer, as well as other photos from those documents already “in government holdings.”

Quote:“Biometrically confirmed entries into the United States are added to the traveler’s crossing record,” the document says.
An agency under the Department of Homeland Security, CBP says that its face recognition tool “is currently operating in the air, sea, and land pedestrian environments.” The agency’s goal is to bring it to “the land vehicle environment.” (Emphasis mine)
Real-time face recognition? Biometrically confirmed? Air, sea, and land? Sounds like Trump’s digital biometric surveillance state to me.
So, when you hear Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, the army of “conservative” Republicans in Congress, or the talking heads working for Con., Inc. tell you that the Big Beautiful Bill will make America great again, remember that the budget-busting monstrosity brings the digital biometric surveillance state one step closer to being a permanent fixture in American life.