Here’s the tech powering ICE’s deportation crackdown, from facial recognition to AI surveillance tools shaping U.S. immigration enforcement.
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ICE’s Deportation Crackdown: The Tech Behind It
Here’s the Tech Powering ICE’s Deportation Crackdown President Donald Trump made immigration enforcement a central issue during his campaign, vowing to carry out mass deportations. In his first eight months in office, that promise translated into around 350,000 deportations , according to CNN. These included nearly 200,000 removals by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), more than 132,000 by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and almost 18,000 self-deportations. Image Credits:BLAKE FAGAN / AFP / Getty Images At the core of this effort is ICE, now leveraging advanced digital surveillance tools. Here’s the tech powering ICE’s deportation crackdown —from facial recognition to AI-driven monitoring systems—that’s changing the landscape of immigration enforcement. Clearview AI and Facial Recognition Clearview AI has become one of the most controversial players in the surveillance space. The company claims it can identify nearly any face using its massive photo database scraped from the int…
