Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Did Nazi Germany actually make a law that made being Jewish illegal? Or did they just do all the persecution without a legal basis?
    Seems to me that ICE is moving further and further away from an actual legal basis for their activities, ignoring civil rights based on very questionable argument that the suspects are not citizens, although obviously many of the people they confront are.

    Also even if they aren’t citizens doesn’t mean they don’t have rights, except in a fascist country that ignores human rights.
    But the idea that only citizens have rights, is a huge argument for staying far away from USA as for instance a tourist and for business travel too.