Liz McLellan watched from her window in Maine as federal agents utilized high-tech surveillance tools to track her community. These agents, part of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, are using license plate readers and technical wizardry to funnel data to federal hubs. This surveillance dragnet captures the whereabouts of US citizens and immigrants alike. "We know you live right here," is the message sent to residents. An investigation by The Associated Press recently won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing this global surveillance expansion. The project highlighted the role of US tech firms in building tools of mass control in China and at home. Congress has passed another short-term extension of the FISA Section 702 program to keep these programs running. Senator Ron Wyden has called for the declassification of secret intelligence court rulings. For the people of Maine, the digital perimeter has become a physical cage. The privacy of the rural landscape has been replaced by the steady gaze of the state. This paper identifies this dragnet as the ultimate expression of the hollow state: it cannot provide a paycheck for its workers, but it can afford the most advanced tools of domestic repression.