Eh.
The purpose of the AI is the surveillance...
It's all one thing.
The cameras record plates, the towers log phones. Everything records browsing data.
All that goes to a data center to be saved indefinitely.
AI constantly tries to organize it into profiles indexed via search tags.
Then if they want to look at anyone, they have a complete file on everyone ready at an instant. If they don't have someone to look at, they ask AI for a list of everyone that was in the right places at the right times. Then the AI looks at the browsing history of everyone and any redflags there or anywhere else.
It's 100% how they got Luigi, and if it comes out during the trial that the same file already exists for everyone in America, citizen or not...
The whole house of cards crashes down, because even the racists will be able to figure out that means ICE could just deport all the criminals if they wanted to. And everyone left of the racists (including the people who don't give a fuck) will be pissed for the right reasons.