The massive spending bill, touted by Trump as the 'Big Beautiful Bill', funneled over $100 billion into US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through 2029, dwarfing its former $8 billion annual budget.

ICE has reactivated a $2 million spyware contract with Paragon Solutions, an Israeli-founded firm now owned by a US private equity group with ties to the CIA and US military. It is unclear how much influence Israeli intelligence veterans still wield inside the company. Graphite is Paragon's flagship spyware, it focuses on breaking in to encrypted messaging apps. It is stealthy, precise, and hard to detect, which makes it attractive to governments.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has reactivated a $2 million spyware contract with Paragon Solutions, an Israeli-founded firm now owned by a U.S. private equity group. The move lifts a Biden-era freeze and signals a deeper embrace of invasive surveillance tools in domestic immigration enforcement.

It is also only the latest sign of how far the federal government's surveillance apparatus has grown under the banner of "immigration enforcement." ICE has become one of its most powerful nodes — a conduit through which cutting-edge spyware, data analytics, and AI-driven tools are deployed inside U.S. borders.