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ICE arsenalAug 2026

Not yet verified: ICE's reported $57M on skip tracing in one month

A figure that circulated in August 2026 said ICE spent $57 million on skip tracing in a single month. Skip tracing means paying companies to find people's current addresses. A later report by Project Salt Box, citing federal spending data, supports the figure, but we have not checked those federal records ourselves, so it stays off the verified list for now.

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No primary source found for this figure.

How we know: Unverified, stays cut. Cut list #2.

Source chain

No source supports this. That is why it is marked retracted.

Machine-readable: /api/v1/claims/skip-tracing-57m.json