ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.
Portland Labor Against ICE March Faces Brutal Fed Response
A peaceful rally was met with violence when federal agents unleashed tear gas, rubber bullets, and other munitions on Portlanders, including young children, highlighting the deepening militarization of law enforcement and the community’s unwavering resistance.
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
‘Backing down isn’t an option’: Minnesota ICE shootings mobilize Americans to join ICE observer groups
The killings of Minneapolis residents Renee Good and Alex Pretti have inspired people across the US to document federal agents’ activities in their communities
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
The Tech Arsenal That ICE Has Deployed in Minneapolis
Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
Earlier this month we revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a Palantir tool called ELITE to decide which neighborhoods to raid.The tool...
ICE has been invading U.S. cities, targeting, surveilling, harassing, assaulting, detaining, and torturing people who are undocumented immigrants. They also have …
Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman. How She Fought Back
A police officer in Colorado used evidence from Flock cameras to wrongfully accuse an innocent woman for package theft, then yelled at her on the phone when ...
The warnings highlight just how bad of an operational security screwup Flock's info sharing design was... 404 Media (@404media.co)
The warnings highlight just how bad of an operational security screwup Flock's info sharing design was. It also shows how cops see themselves as being consistently under threat from the people it is supposed to protect. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.
https://www.404media.co/police-told-to-be-as-vague-as-permissible-about-why-they-use-flock/
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said it would lead its own investigation into its officers’ use of force. Officials including DHS Secretary Kri...
The Big Business of ICE…“like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.” — Indivisible Oregon
The vast majority of individuals detained by ICE are held and processed through private for-profit immigrant detention facilities and prisons that stand to earn billions for their involvement in a system of gross injustice, physical violence, and abuse. And your tax dollars are paying for it.
'Amazon Prime for human beings': Explaining the deportation industrial complex
"We need to get better at treating this like a business. Like [Amazon] Prime for human beings." This is what the acting director of ICE, Todd Lyons, said at ...