Thursday, 27 February 2020

Immigrants trusted Maryland to give them licenses. Then ICE betrayed them.

Immigrants trusted Maryland to give them licenses. Then ICE betrayed them.

Today in corrosive public policy, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been running warrantless facial recognition searches of Maryland driver's licenses allegedly as a way to hunt down undocumented immigrants, according to a report from The Washington Post.

Why Maryland? In 2013, the state passed a bill that allowed undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses, a policy intended and proven to increase public safety. The state has issued more than 275,000 of these licenses to date.

ICE says that it mostly conducts the license searches to look for child exploitation or cybercrime and that it does not "routinely" use it for immigration enforcement. However, immigrant activists reportedly began to suspect something was amiss when ICE conducted raids on individuals who had recently obtained the special licenses. Read more...

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