Tech tools may drive record deportations under Trump’s crackdown

Apps and ankle monitors that track asylum seekers in real time wherever they go. Databases packed with personal information like fingerprints and faces. Investig­ative tools that can break into locked phones and search through gigabytes of emails, text and other files.

These are pieces of a technology arsenal available to President Trump as he aims to crack down on illegal immigration and carry out the largest deportation operation in American history. To do so, his administration can tap a stockpile of tools built up by Democrats and Republicans that is nearly unma­tched in the Western world, according toThe New York Times analysis.