By: Steven Hubbard |americanimmigrationcouncil.org |Editorial credit: Mamun_Sheikh / Shutterstock.com U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has partnered with Palantir Technologies—a Denver-based software company co-founded by billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel—to use artificial intelligence and data mining to identify, track, and deport suspected noncitizens. Palantir is slated to deliver a prototype of the ImmigrationOS platform by September […]
By: Aaron Reichlin-Melnick |americanimmigrationcouncil.org | Editorial credit: a katz / Shutterstock.com As we continue to see sweeping changes to immigration enforcement inside the United States, the Trump administration has also begun taking steps to restrict immigration to the United States. Over the past two weeks, the Trump administration announced that it was intending to bring back multiple […]
By Brian Figeroux, Esq | Editorial credit: NatalieSchorr / shutterstock.com Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is widely celebrated for his unwavering commitment to nonviolent protest as a means of achieving social change. As the face of the Civil Rights Movement, King advocated for peaceful resistance in the fight against racial injustice, firmly believing that nonviolence […]
By Adriel Orozco | Immigration Impact On April 19, forty minutes after the ostensible deadline to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Congress passed H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA). President Biden quickly signed it into law hours later. RISAA reauthorizes Section 702 for two years, provides modest reforms, and includes several controversial changes […]
By Rong Xiaoqing | Documented I. The Encounter When she is not serving customers at her store, Yibing Wang ruminates about how she came to cross paths with the FBI. The first time she met with two FBI agents and their interpreter, they came to her shop in South Brooklyn, where she sells Chinese snacks, dried […]
