ICE's surveillance on wire transfers

The US is tracking financial payments to find people to deport. The deportation thugs could do this with bank card payments, too. (The bully's henchmen can disregard and flatten privacy laws.) The targets do not have to be limited to people who entered the US without authorization. They could apply it also to people like Mahmoud Khalil, who are in the US lawfully but committed the "crime" of criticizing Israel's war crimes, or El Supremo himself.

It was first predicted in the 1970s that a widely used trackable digital payment system would be a tool for repression and tyranny. Nowadays we can see this in practice in China. The bully's order for all federal government departments to give all their personal data to the DOPE, and to Palantir, is preparing to use data mining to find anything the bully disapproves of, even if lawful or constitutionally protected, to generate an excuse to persecute.

The basic grass-roots way to resist this is to pay cash.