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Border Patrol Agents Use Facial Recognition on Streets to Verify Citizenship

By

samfriedman

7mo ago· 2 min readenNews

Summary

Border Patrol agents in Chicago are using facial recognition technology on the street to verify citizenship, stopping young men on bikes and scanning their faces when they don't have ID. The practice, documented in social media videos, has been described by experts as 'pure dystopian creep' and raises concerns about civil liberties and surveillance overreach by immigration enforcement agencies.

Key quotes

· 4 pulled
You don't got no ID?
can you do facial?
pure dystopian creep
He says in the video he was born here, meaning he would be an American citizen
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Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

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