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An activist in the Netherlands is using AI and facial recognition to identify masked ICE agents from viral arrest videos.

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Activists Are Using AI to Identify Masked ICE Agents

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Instagram users are baffled after an innocuous illustration of the words "immigrants make the country great" was flagged by the platform.

Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say “Immigrants Make the Country Great”

By Victor Tangermann

ICE Agents Accidentally Add Random Person to Group Chat, Uncover Highly Sensitive Data

ICE Agents Accidentally Add Random Person to Group Chat, Uncover Highly Sensitive Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Waymo is hiring a "public affairs specialist" after becoming an unwitting participant in Los Angeles' anti-immigration raid protests.

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Waymo Hiring For a “Public Affairs Specialist” in Los Angeles While People Are Settings Its Cars on Fire

By Noor Al-Sibai

South African-born Elon Musk says he's "doing a quiet trial" of president Donald Trump's dubious "gold card" immigration program.

Elon Musk Is Running a “Quiet Trial” of Trump’s “Gold Card” Billionaire Immigration Program

By Victor Tangermann

An Anonymous hacker has allegedly defaced GlobalX Air's website, accessed pilot software, and deleted sensitive company data.

Trump’s Deportation Airline Just Got Hacked by Anonymous

Elon Musk is planning to mine private data from multiple agencies to assist in speedier deportations on his way out the White House door.

Elon Musk Using Private Data to Build List of People to Deport

By Noor Al-Sibai

ICE has been forced to delete a graphic claiming that its job is to stop illegal "ideas" from entering the United States.

ICE Deletes Post About Stopping the Flow of Illegal “Ideas”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Todd Lyons envisions a future for migrants in the United States that's less like Ellis Island, and more like Amazon Prime.

Director of ICE Says Deportations Should Operate More Like Amazon Prime

We may be seeing some of the first major fissures forming in the dalliance between Donald Trump and his billionaire backer Elon Musk.

MAGA Figures Turn on Elon Musk for Not Hating Immigrants Enough

By Frank Landymore

As Donald Trump's second presidential transition hurdles ever forward, his mass deportation plan is freaking farmers out.

Farmers Beg Trump Not to Deport the Immigrants They Use for Cheap Labor

By Noor Al-Sibai

While Elon Musk continues to rail against immigration, it appears that he was staying in the US illegally when he started his first business.

Evidence Grows That Elon Musk Was an Illegal Immigrant Before Deciding He Hated Immigrants

By Frank Landymore

Multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk has become a staunch opponent of illegal immigrants, despite his brother once calling him one.

Elon Musk Hates Illegal Immigrants, But According to His Brother He Used to Be One

By Victor Tangermann

Bad AI has a price — and in the case of the United States immigration system's translation AI, that price could cost people their freedom.

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ICE Is Using Busted Translation AI That Can’t Understand Detainees

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Trump administration is planning to force almost all future asylum seekers and migrants to have their DNA taken and added to a database.

Trump Admin to Require DNA Samples From Asylum Seekers

By Victor Tangermann

In a new piece for Quartz, professor David Carroll argues that the U.S. is a surveillance state not entirely unlike China.

Professor: US Surveillance State Is a Lot Like China’s

By Kristin Houser