Feds Use 'Border Security' To Justify Social Media Surveillance
Supposedly targeted at immigrants and travelers, the program endangers everybody’s liberty.
Supposedly targeted at immigrants and travelers, the program endangers everybody’s liberty.
From tariffs to dietary guidelines, this election may bring the biggest federal changes to alcohol since Prohibition’s end.
Suspending the parole program for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela could increase illegal entries and undermine border security.
Americans shouldn’t count on the department to use the technology responsibly or in a limited way.
“The victims may not have been persecuted or tortured due to the data breach yet, but the likelihood of those outcomes has increased due to ICE’s conduct.”
Rep. Cori Bush (D–Mo.) and multiple civil liberties organizations cited the "Cop City" project in Atlanta, in which dozens of protesters have been charged with domestic terrorism.
Today’s decision “is narrow and simply maintains the longstanding jurisprudential status quo,” wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh for the majority.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence warned that the practice threatens civil liberties, risks "mission creep," and could increase intelligence agencies' power.
College players on student visas face complex barriers when it comes to profiting off their names, images, and likenesses.
As the government sets its sights on migrants crossing the border, native-born Americans have also come under its watchful eye.
Department of Homeland Security
Break it up into fewer, smaller agencies that are more accountable to pre-9/11 departments.
Surveilling American citizens without due process, separating undocumented children from their parents, the TSA—the DHS has been a failure.
A new proposal to more than triple visa entry fees for performers will harm American audiences and culture.
Plus: The editors briefly celebrate a noteworthy shake-up in the Senate.
Content moderators had "weekly confabs" with law enforcement officials, reports Matt Taibbi.
Department of Homeland Security
While the Department of Homeland Security pressured tech companies to censor their users' posts, it also branded election deniers as potential terrorists.
The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI regularly report misinformation and disinformation to tech companies for potential removal.
Over time, betting has been a better predictor than polls, pundits, statistical models, and everything else.
They were ultimately allowed to stay. But it’s an example of ICE targeting nonviolent migrants after a federal judge blocked the Biden administration’s enforcement priorities.
ICE has spent $2.8 billion since 2008 developing surveillance and facial-recognition capabilities, mostly in secrecy and without real oversight.
The board's head says she is dedicated to "protecting free speech," but she has also expressed direct opposition to "free speech absolutists."
The department suffers “a dangerous combination of broad authorities, weak safeguards, and insufficient oversight.”
A lawsuit attempts to find out how federal agents are implementing Wickr, a communications service that has an auto-erase function.
There are no public health gains from booting kids out of the country.
A federal judge wrote that migrants could face "horrific consequences" if expelled to certain places, particularly Mexico and Central American countries.
But bureaucratic backlogs mean it's still taking far too long for them to get to work.
Offending the powerful can be dangerous in an increasingly authoritarian world.
History is repeating itself in ways that we, and our kids, will live to regret.
Even supporters of the law should recognize the dangers of using enforcement as punishment.
Biden promised to be an immigration changemaker. Where is the change?
Targeting “extremists” threatens civil liberties while increasing the stresses that lead to violence.
We have to stop governing by emergency.
Plus: Trump threatens Iran, Pennsylvania pandemic restrictions are unconstitutional, sex workers call out Kamala Harris, and more...
The Secret Service wanted the helicopter to deploy a "fast ropes" commando team if necessary.
In two-thirds of those cases, there were no accompanying arrests.
The 2012 internal affairs report complaint was filed by a use-of-force instructor who warned the advice could lead to lawsuits.
Deep ranks of enforcers with expansive powers and wide-ranging responsibilities will always pose a risk to the public, no matter which level of government employs them.
Plus: Breonna’s Law bans no-knock raids in Kentucky, Amazon's third-party problem, new findings on metabolism, and more...
Forcibly collecting DNA samples from immigrants in detention is yet another horrifying form of mass surveillance
Longstanding discipline problems at DHS provide a glimpse of what fans of bigger government on the right and left would inflict on us.
Department of Homeland Security
A policy that allows for quicker deportations near the border could expand nationwide.
In 2018 alone, the Laredo sector has seen an admitted serial killer, an agent accused of killing his own kid, and the controversial shooting a 19-year-old.
Nearly $10 million was redirected from FEMA.
Former FEMA personnel chief Corey Coleman is accused of nepotism and sexual harassment.
The enforcement of "zero tolerance" immigration policies by ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations is harming another part of the agency.
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