McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — The use of new artificial intelligence to gather data on immigrants in the United States is expected to increase after the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement purchased almost $10 million for new facial recognition technology.
According to reports, the $9.2 million contract with Clearview AI is for the agency’s Homeland Security Investigations teams data to use in cases where law enforcement officers were assaulted, and in cases of child sexual exploitation.
In the latest episode of Border Report Live, correspondents Sandra Sanchez and Julian Resendiz talk about new AI technology that the United States and Mexico are using for facial identification at ports of entry and in border cities.
Plus, civil rights organizations and migrant advocates are promoting a new toolkit for school districts across the United States to use to keep ICE agents out of school campuses, and a new court ruling temporarily halted the way taxpayer data can be shared with ICE.
“Actions to share taxpayers’ most confidential data with ICE are a betrayal of the promises our government has made to Americans, and they threaten the people’s trust in the tax system,” said Democracy Forward’s CEO Skye Perryman, who represents a coalition of groups suing the federal government to stop the sharing of information. “We are grateful the court has issued this interim order to stop the threats to core privacy rights while the court considers a more formal order.”
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