By Brad Brooks and Maria Tsvetkova

Sep 3 (Reuters) -In Los Angeles, Francisco “Chavo” Romero and a dozen other immigration activists were out before dawn on a recent summer morning, gathering near an ICE staging area so they could tail the immigration agents’ vehicles and send alerts over social media on the officers’ whereabouts.

In Austin, a technology worker created an app to report sightings of agents – it has over 1 million users. On Long Island, New York, another activist developed a similar app to report immigration enforcement raids in local areas.

As President Donald Trump ramps up his mass deportation efforts with $75 billion in new funding through 2029 to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, civilian surveillance of federal immigration agents is becoming increasing

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