The face-recognition app Mobile Fortify, now used by United States immigration agents in towns and cities across the US, is not designed to reliably identify people in the streets and was deployed without the scrutiny that has historically governed the… Read More "ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are"
The Department of Homeland Security is moving to consolidate its face recognition and other biometric technologies into a single system capable of comparing faces, fingerprints, iris scans, and other identifiers collected across its enforcement agencies, according to records reviewed by… Read More "DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies"
A PDF that Department of Homeland Security officials provided to New Hampshire governor Kelly Ayotte’s office about a new effort to build “mega” detention and processing centers across the United States contains embedded comments and metadata identifying the people who… Read More "Metadata Exposes Authors of ICE’s ‘Mega’ Detention Center Plans"
Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of highly militarized DHS units whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones. Source link Read More "The Paramilitary ICE and CBP Units at the Center of Minnesota's Killings"
In January 2026, two Americans were killed in the act of watching Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minneapolis. Renee Nicole Good was acting as a legal observer while her wife recorded the federal immigration agents they encountered. Alex Pretti… Read More "How to Film ICE | WIRED"
On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security published new details about Mobile Fortify, the face recognition app that federal immigration agents use to identify people in the field, undocumented immigrants and US citizens alike. The details, including the company behind… Read More "Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App"
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement is leveraging Palantir’s generative artificial intelligence tools to sort and summarize immigration enforcement tips from its public submission form, according to an inventory released Wednesday of all use cases the Department of Homeland Security… Read More "ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips"
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in Minnesota is pushing the United States court system to its breaking point. Since Operation Metro Surge began in December, federal immigration agents have arrested some 4,000 people, according to the Department of… Read More "ICE Is Crashing the US Court System in Minnesota"
A federal judge on Monday declined to immediately curb the federal operation that has put armed agents on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul, but ordered the government to file a new briefing by Wednesday evening answering a central… Read More "Judge Delays Minnesota ICE Decision While Weighing Whether State Is Being Illegally Punished"
United States Customs and Border Protection plans to spend $225,000 for a year of access to Clearview AI, a face recognition tool that compares photos against billions of images scraped from the internet. The deal extends access to Clearview tools… Read More "CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’"
