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ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship

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Re: ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship

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Post by xeonmc »

_yb2s wrote: post #55

Don’t fall for the lie that this is at all about illegal immigration- that is just an excuse for what has become state sponsored KKK style racial terrorism operating completely outside the law. Videos all over the Internet show them violently attacking and terrorizing hispanic looking people with no concern for if they are citizens or not. At the Wilder raid in Idaho they were shooting children with rubber bullets, a…

This reality feels like someone had their monkey paw wish granted.

“I wish I could play Wolfenstein in real life.”

Re: ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship

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Post by ASalazarMX »

oceansky wrote: post #95
0xy wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It's almost as if deportation of illegal immigrants is not the issue. But current ICE methodologies and disregard for laws are.

Parent comment flagged and removed, but it was basically "Why didn't you complain in the past?".

This is a known tactic of propagandists, implying that you have no right to complain if you didn't complain in the past. Anyone using this method is immediately suspect of not seeking honest discussion. Also, it doesn't work outside of a few social networks, stop trying it everywhere.

Re: ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship

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Post by roywiggins »

RajT88 wrote: post #67
stronglikedan wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that has nothing to do with this

That's what they say, but of course they would say that . It's like that old Groucho joke: Who are you going to believe? Me, or your lyin' eyes?

They don't even always say that:

https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/29/feds-march-into-...

> “Then, obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said to the reporter, a tall, middle-aged man of Anglo descent.

Re: ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship

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Post by mindslight »

Molitor5901 wrote: post #90

I wonder if this is a portend to an American social credit score, like where China uses facial recognition to identify criminals at concerts[1], and jaywalkers, etc. which severely impacts a person's ability to get a job, housing, etc. I can't help but assume this is already being used at retail establishments, but now it could be tied into law enforcement databases, and .. communicate..

"American" "social" credit scores were instituted long ago. Distracting from this was the whole reason the media added the word "social" to the term - to other the idea as something that happens over there, never here.

That was the carrot. This new development is the stick.

Re: ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship

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Post by jshier »

buellerbueller wrote: post #78
mothballed wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Always has been. Biden's CBP goons stripped me naked, imprisoned me, ran up an ER bill for which I'm still being chased for by debt collectors, and tranported me by prisoner van all over the state, while they were enforcing Biden's (and now continue with Trump) insane war on drugs. I did not have drugs, I am not involved with drugs. Of course nothing was found, and the allegation was hearsay by an HSI detective that…

Scale matters. Once is a bad actor; this is a bad executive branch, with seriously bad supporting turns by the highest court and congress.

Yes, ICE has been a bad actor since the day it was created, which is why "shutdown ICE" has been a thing on the left for a while now. But it's now operating as the private military of Donald Trump and the executive branch on a scale never before seen in America. Its upcoming budget is greater than every other federal law enforcement agency combined. We see videos every day of their gleeful assaults on anyone they like, while their leadership has explicitly stated there will be no repercussions, and that they should be as abusive as they want.

Re: ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship

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Post by Insanity »

mrbombastic wrote: post #39

If you haven’t seen it this video is a dystopian display of this tech in action: https://www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/comments/1ogm1qk/ice_agen... I am struggling a bit personally with how to grapple with the fact that the career I have chosen has ended up bolstering all the horrible inclinations of those in power. I think we need some kind of tech workers collective and some version of the hippocratic oath to start pu…

It's true now as in the past. Technology or science aren't inherently good or bad, just a matter of how you use it. Personally I enjoyed much more working on medical devices at a university than typical commercial software, simply because there's an ethical component to that software that was quite fulfilling.

Re: ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship

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Post by FireBeyond »

_yb2s wrote: post #55

Don’t fall for the lie that this is at all about illegal immigration- that is just an excuse for what has become state sponsored KKK style racial terrorism operating completely outside the law. Videos all over the Internet show them violently attacking and terrorizing hispanic looking people with no concern for if they are citizens or not. At the Wilder raid in Idaho they were shooting children with rubber bullets, a…

Very much so. There's multiple videos of them standing in Walmart parking lots and as shoppers walk out with their carts, anyone vaguely Hispanic is being questioned. "Where were you born? Are you American?"

Probable cause is out the window. This is, firsthand, Steven Millers White America policy starting to take effect.

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