WHAT A GREAT IDEA - Finally the law and technology are working together
ICE and FBI used facial recognition to search drivers' license databases
US immigration officers have used facial recognition technology to search drivers' licenses in states that issue licenses to undocumented immigrants.
Millions of licenses were scanned by FBI and ICE agents between 2014 and 2017, without the holders knowing.
Illegal immigrants must be deported immediately. We have to turn attention to taking care of problems in our own country. Don't listen to a small group of special interests. Don't give in.
This is some 1984 black mirror dystopia people's republic of China BS. Even though it is being used in a way that should in theory improve the quality of life for law abiding citizens, this kind of technology should have never been allowed to be developed. Privacy is a constitutional right and we should be appalled that such an infraction should be allowed to take place.
All the immigrant stuff should be secondary to this conversation.
Devils advocate here but where in our constitution does it talk about a right to privacy ?
No, all are important issues. Immigration may be more important to others, not just you.
@JacobMeyers 4th Amendment.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
@St-Sinner Cool, but privacy is important for everyone. I don't care if they are deporting immigrants, giving them all legal status or if we are invading Mexico with plans to annex. As far as I am concerned, they shouldn't be allowed to do that without taking out a warrant on every person they check.
@Happy_Killbot totally agree about the need for a warrant. I don’t see the 4th as a guarantee of privacy however. That’s a topic for a diff discussion though. Carry on the good fight
Why is it that bigots and online trolls never have any pics of themselves? They spit out hatred and ignorance but refuse to let anyone see their face? Why hide behind cartoon images? Could this guys face be as repulsive as his beliefs?
Correct. You got it.
Is this douchebag for real? Looking at your profile pic and the headline of your post I assumed it was a joke. Illegal immigration? You know whats REALLY hurting the country? Billionaires and greedy corporate interests that pay little to nothing in taxes for their obscenely large profits. Companies that cause large amounts of pollution and are screwing up the climate. Oil pipelines being ran through Native land and leaking oil in our waters. Police abusing their power and killing people. Oh and the corrupt orange embarrassment in the white house. What ISNT hurting this country? Jose and Maria coming over to do jobs you don't want to do anyway (AND by the way paying taxes in most cases) so they can live in peace with their children thanks to america overthrowing governments and causing the issues which they flea in the first place. Go eat an entire bag of dicks you boot licking nazi
But,,,,,,,,Trump told us they are the problem.
Illegal is bad. Legal is good. Did you not learn that in school?
@St-Sinner What I learned in school is that slavery was legal, the holocaust was legal, the trail of tears was legal, the salem witch trials were legal. Basically I learned that legal does not equal right. I was taught that many atrocities were committed by people like you that were "just following the law and doing our jobs" What school did you go to again?
@PondartIncbendog Do you listen to everything Trump tells you? Why not see the good wherever it is? Obama did healthcare but he was terrible everywhere else, a weak president in the knees, no balls.
You are going too far with your analogies. Catching illegal immigrants is catching common criminals. But because we are a compassionate nation of laws, we will just return them home.... Not extort money from, not rape, not beat, not jail them which most likely may happen in their own countries.
@PondartIncbendog, @Gooderer I have a good solution to give you permanant peace by doing something bigger than yourself. This is a historic opportunity for you. It will put you in the history books... possibly bigger than Martin Luther King and even bigger than your hero George Washington who owned slaves.
"Start a worldwide campaign for America airlifting starving and sick children from around the world and giving them asylum here. We will feed them, treat them, educate them, raise them and give them a permanent home and not just save their lives but give the world more Nobel laureates, Olympic medal winners etc. Show compassion and kindness at the right place. Show your big heart to where it is needed. Don't cry just for illegal immigrants at the Southern border who are abusing the system."
This is your chance to shine. Tomorrow's generations will read about you in the history books.
@PondartIncbendog, @Gooderer I went to the school that taught me there is good and there is bad. It taught me that some people will confuse you between the good and the bad and not to listen to them. Believe in your convictions and stand with the good because it is not local, it is universal.
You did not go to that school. You went to special interests school.
@St-Sinner So you went to "grad school" and don't know when to use "week" and "weak"?
@Cherie4444
Please give it time. You don't have to do anything. Once they know how much tax revenue it can give the state, they will fuck Jesus and legalize it.
The posters comments have been measured and consistent. There are many problems facing the USA, and after decades of ignoring this one, do we ignore it further? If so … we can’t ignore the voters motivated to support a candidate openly willing to finally do something serious about it. With that, there’s only been one.
Your profile says you are "open minded " I believe you need to rethink that. And of course you're from Texas the state with more bigots per Square mile than any other.
Open minded to all things legal. Open minded does not mean bent over.
legally doesn't equal morality. What hitler did was "legal". Owning slaves used to be "legal". Ill say it again "LEGAL DOES NOT EQUAL MORAL" LAWS ARE NOT ALWAYS JUST. If you can't grasp that concept then you are a blind order following boot licking facsist who thinks america fighting the brits for their independence was illegal and wrong. The most American thing anyone can do is break any law that is unjust.
@St-Sinner You seem intent on missing the point that just because something isn't legal doesn't automatically make it wrong. Legality is no standard for morality and it never was. So you support atrocities as long as they are done "legally"? If you do that makes you a monster who can't think for himself. You realize that right?
@St-Sinner Seeking asylum is legal. Asylum seekers must be in the U.S. or at a port of entry (an airport or an official land crossing) to apply for, or request the opportunity to apply for, asylum. There’s no way to ask for a visa or any type of authorization in advance for the purpose of seeking asylum...
@Gooderer Please mention Obama started putting children in cages and the conditions must be improved. We all agree on it. That is why McConnell and Pelosi released immediate funds without bitching.
@Gooderer ICE will not be abolished because we have an immigration menace at the border.
Lets do some simple math. There are three hundred sixty million people in the USA. Eleven million are illegal immigrants.
What is the percentage of illegal immigrants in the USA?
Is that really a problem?
NO!!
This is exactly the thinking with which one became 11 million. It can be 50 million in a few years. Don't condone illegal things and wake up.
@St-Sinner You are an alarmist. There is no point to conversing with you.
@PondartIncbendog A alarm is necessary, otherwise we will sleep at the border and the illegal immigrants of 11 million will become 100 million.
Oh no help the brown people are coming!! They will clean hotels and pick fruit and do other jobs my racist white privileged ass won't do!! Ohh the humanity of brown people coming here to live among us peacefully. Id trade 100 million racists nazi scumbags for 100 million hard working peaceful immigrants any day
@Gooderer But,,,,,Nazis don't do produce. LOL!!
@Gooderer I served with Mexicans in the USAF in the 70's. We did the same job, had the same aspirations, I trusted them like a friend. Knew their families. I come from a family of Vets. We all agree.
@PondartIncbendog Ive met good and bad from all races and all walks of life. Blind hatred of an entire group of people is something I find horrendous and insulting. I am Cuban and have lived among many different cultures. The sooner we realize we are all one human family and lose the ridiculous hate, like this St-Sinner douche seems filled with, the sooner we can channel that wasted energy into more productive life improving means.
@PondartIncbendog Special interest is making noise.
Gosh… and to think we fought like ..hell back in Oregon (and won) to keep them from being issued driver’s licenses..
..talking with self.. When placed on Oregon’s ballot as a citizen’s initiative, and seriously outspent - every county in Oregon voted not to allow illegal aliens to be issued a driver's license but one (Multnomah, Portland Metro, my hometown). It confirmed to me (at least) - a lot of ‘ordinary’ voters are sick of illegal immigration. Trump confirmed that on a national level.
If Democrats blow this yet again … ‘this’ may very well be why..
I don’t understand how this helps. What are they comparing the face to and why does that help them deport people? Site your source please.
It is at BBC.
It makes a good sense to me. Isolating by matching people's pictures (which are retaken every 2 years) with another databases that has more information such criminal history. The United States must do everything to find all illegal immigrants and deport them.
@St-Sinner retaken every 2 years?
@JasonTomerlin2 Most states require that you renew your drivers license by physically coming into a DMV office
@St-Sinner in Arizona, every 12 years. So most? Shrug
@JasonTomerlin2 That is what Trump is fighting on with the legislators.
@St-Sinner That is States rights. That is not up to the Trumpanzees. My state is 10 years. You are wrong again. Can't speak logic? Hmmm........
@PondartIncbendog Hate Trump but don't hate law and order. Propose good solutions to stop illegal immigration. Call your senator/representative to add value by supporting rule of law, give your suggestions, give your time, effort and possibly money.
@St-Sinner No! I think you are not being honest. You are confused by politics. Republicans are supporting Trump the traitor. You are supporting his policies. This wasn't a problem until the GOP said it was. You are brainwashed.
I am supporting Trump on...
I dislike him and may vote against him in 2020. If he makes a big and permanent change in nation's immigration policy, I will support him just like millions of Obama democrats and independents did in 2016, still do and will do in 2020. Remember, there is a silent majority in America that is watching. They do not listen to the noise of special interests of city folks make.
I do not know what you have against promoting a fair immigration policy where we do not put immigrants overwhelming the resources at the border, give them residency, allow DACA to stay here while millions of qualified and also deserving people are waiting in line at the Consulates?
If anyone has so much compassion, should start a fund and effort to help them, even airlift starving children from around the world but not ask to pledge nation's and law abiding citizens' resources to allow illegal immigration.
@St-Sinner hmmm still confusing. So we can match drivers license pics with criminal record pics. What’s the link to illegal immigration?
We're putting legal asylum seekers in camps. That's not right or normal.
We are now discovering that many asylum seekers are not even asking asylum on valid grounds. Domestic abuse is not one.
Why not apply for asylum at the consulates in own countries?
@St-Sinner because our law says come to the border and ask for asylum.
We are all immigrants...
I hope legal
legal immigrants is ok, illegal immigrants is not ok.