Fi2W Reporting Fellow Narimes Parakul produced an eight-page zine about Fi2W’s investigative series, Surveilled and Sold. Available in English and Spanish, the zine focuses on how surveillance tools — known as automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) — undermine sanctuary protections in her home city of Portland, Oregon.

Surveilled and Sold is an investigative series about how surveillance technologies track immigrants in an era of mass deportation — and the ways private companies and the U.S. government buy, sell, and exchange our personal data.

Front cover: How ALPRs undermine Portland’s sanctuary status
Pg 1: You may have seen these cameras in parking lots around town. They’re automatic license plate readers, or ALPRs.
Pg 2: ALPRs capture the make, model, color, plate, and unique markers of every car that drives by. They can keep track of a person’s daily routes and routines.
Pg 3-4: ALPRs pose an extra threat to immigrants’ safety, despite sanctuary laws in place. Sanctuary laws are supposed to prohibit local personnel and resources from immigration enforcement efforts. But they fall short.
Pg 5: In 2025, a farmworker in Woodburn, OR was on her way to work. Immigration officials used data from ALPRs to find her. Her car was pulled over by ICE. who detained her, along with 30 others that day.
Pg 6: How effective are Portland’s sanctuary city policies...when ICE can track and surveil immigrant communities with ease?
Back cover: Scan to read the full series. Surveilled and Sold is an investigative 5-part series about how surveillance technologies track immigrants in an era of mass deportation. fi2w.org/surveilled-and-sold Credits: Reporting by Narimes Parakul Photo by Celeste Noche Illustrations by Dabin Han, Brannan Cinnamon, and Narimes Parakul

Narimes has distributed the zine at local libraries, coffeeshops, and bookstores around town, with the goal of reaching community members and informing immigrant Portlanders about the threats these tools present to their data privacy.

We encourage you to download, print, and share our zine:

Download and Print Zine (English)
Download and Print Zine (Spanish)

Instructions for assembling the zine can be found below:

Instructions for assembling a zine from 42nd Street.

Zine Credits:

Reporting by Narimes Parakul

Cover Photo by Celeste Noche

Illustrations by Dabin Han, Brannan Cinnamon, and Narimes Parakul

Spanish translations by Alejandro Salazar Dyer

Feet in 2 Worlds is supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Ford Foundation, the Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation, the Elizabeth Bond Davis Foundation, an anonymous donor, and contributors to our annual NewsMatch campaign.

Feet in 2 Worlds (Fi2W) is an independent media outlet, journalism training program, and launchpad for emerging immigrant journalists and media makers of color. Our work brings positive and meaningful change to America's newsrooms and has a broader impact on how immigration is reported and the ethnic and racial composition of news organizations.