{"id":6347,"date":"2025-10-30T17:26:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ice-cbp-facial-recognition\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:26:37","slug":"ice-cbp-facial-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/ice-cbp-facial-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE Is Now Wandering the Streets, Scanning People\u2019s Faces to Check If They\u2019re Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United States\u2019 anti-immigration regime already boasts an impressive arsenal<\/a> of surveillance towers, cloud data bases, and automated visa systems.<\/p>\n

Adding to that panopticon is the personal phone of every Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agent currently prowling the streets of US for migrants to round up.<\/p>\n

404 Media <\/em>was the first to report<\/a> the troubling rise of federal immigration officers busting out their phones to scan people\u2019s faces to confirm their immigration status.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m an American citizen so just leave me alone,\u201d a Chicago-area man tells a swarm of masked immigration officials in a video circulating on social media. The man had refused to give his ID, and was declining to give officers information about his job. \u201cJust get out of here, I have to go to work bro,\u201d he pleads.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when one of the officers points his phone camera at the driver\u2019s face. He proceeds to fumble with his phone for a few seconds, while other masked feds crowd around and a small group of protestors gather.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey, so listen, if you can \u2014 if you can take your hat off, it\u2019ll go a lot quicker,\u201d the officer stammers.<\/p>\n

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DHS investigate a potential illegal alien in West Chicago. Loudmouth Lupe Esq. from my previous video can be seen in the background with the orange hoodie. DHS agents were incredibly patient and respectful during this investigation. pic.twitter.com\/0uZIwt0M8b<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kim “Katie” USA (@KimKatieUSA) October 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Other clips<\/a> are also making the rounds showing ICE and CBP agents making prejudicial stops, haranguing brown-skinned people and scanning their faces when they exercise their right<\/a> to refuse to cooperate.<\/p>\n

Fifty <\/strong>years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that customs officials could not target people based on the color of their skin. That decision was at least temporarily suspended thanks to an emergency ruling<\/a> by 2025\u2019s Supreme Court, allowing feds to stop people based on factors like race, ethnicity, or the language they\u2019re speaking.<\/p>\n

Now imbued with the power to racially profile whoever they want, federal agents are increasingly using facial recognition as the go-to tool to sort the citizens from the migrants. The dystopian practice is in keeping with comments made by ICE\u2019s acting director Todd Lyons earlier this year, when he said he imagines<\/a> deportations running like \u201c[Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Department of Homeland Security declined to answer any questions about ICE\u2019s use of facial recognition, CBP confirmed its agents were using Mobile Fortify, a surveillance app connected to a database of over 200 million images. Mobile Fortify\u2019s existence was first uncovered by a prior 404 <\/em>investigation<\/a> earlier in June.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe growing use of face recognition by ICE shows us two things,\u201d Electronic Frontier Foundation senior policy analyst Matthew Guariglia told 404<\/em> of the scans. \u201cThat we should have banned government use of face recognition when we had the chance because it is dangerous, invasive, and an inherent threat to civil liberties, and that any remaining pretense that ICE is harassing and surveilling people in any kind of \u2018precise\u2019 way should be left in the dust.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on immigration: <\/strong>Government Hires Controversial AI Company to Spy on \u201cKnown Populations\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post ICE Is Now Wandering the Streets, Scanning People\u2019s Faces to Check If They\u2019re Citizens<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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