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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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I think Family guy had a gag about this... https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/family-guy-skin-color-chart

that has nothing to do with this

Discussion's over everyone! Some random user said that had nothing to do with this. He didn't elaborate, but you can't argue with that logic.

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

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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.”

In Wolfenstein, the main character shot Nazi soldiers. It was made back when we had shared societal values like fascism is bad. Today, such a game would be called a product of tHe rAdIcAl lEfT.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

that has nothing to do with this

SCOTUS has endorsed using "apparent ethnicity" as grounds for a stop: https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/justice-brett-kavanaugh-a... Bovino says they do profile people on how they look: > “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. https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/…

We're calling them Kavanaugh Stops. Legalized racial profiling.

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

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Seems like this would be to collect faces of what they consider "dissedents" rather than verify citizenship which can be done much more accurately through a mobile fingerprint reader. Then again, who needs accuracy when you dissapear people without a warrant.

Fingerprint is individual surveillance, face scanning is mass surveillance. I'd expect governments to always favour the latter if given the choice.

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

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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…

It is absolutely insane that the party who tried on the Libertarian mask less than 20 years ago and rode high on a wave of "don't tread on me" individual liberty is now suddenly ok with masked thugs scanning everyone's faces for their master database of enemies of the state.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

that has nothing to do with this

SCOTUS has endorsed using "apparent ethnicity" as grounds for a stop: https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/justice-brett-kavanaugh-a... Bovino says they do profile people on how they look: > “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. https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/09/…

Absolutely. I'm a legal immigrant, but delays in processing and other things when I had to adjust status after divorcing from my US citizen wife (I moved here on a K-1 fiance visa) had me involving an immigration attorney, who made the comment, "I hate saying this, but it's true. You're the right color, and with where you're coming from (Australia), nobody cares about checking up on you."

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

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Seems like this would be to collect faces of what they consider "dissedents" rather than verify citizenship which can be done much more accurately through a mobile fingerprint reader. Then again, who needs accuracy when you dissapear people without a warrant.

When are citizens’ fingerprints normally put on file, in the US? Or, for that matter, noncitizens who entered irregularly?

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

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The irony of doing this while covering their own faces

What's ironic about it? That's like saying it's ironic for soldiers to fire their guns while in a trench. They're doing things unto others that they would not have done unto them.

Except law is not a battle field, otherwise lawyers would decide the victors, or guns the outcomes of trials.

Law is supposed to strive for justice, war is as lawless as it can get away with.

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