How Immigrants and Protesters Are Being Caught in ICE’s AI Dragnet

AI surveillance instruments that are once limited to battlefields are now used by American immigration authorities to control streets, protests and communities throughout the country.

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This was fueled by the alarm among civil liberties that argue for privacy, supervision and focusing people without papers and American citizens.

Last weekend, while demonstrators marched through the center of Los Angeles, a drone overhead tracking floated tyreslooters and those attacking federal agents-a example of how AI-driven surveillance increasingly enters the public areas.

Two days later, the Department of Homeland Security images placed on X, Reportedly taken prisoner by one Predator Drone, who shows scenes from the protest. The video emphasized the increasing use of military technology in domestic supervision.

“There are always worries about drone use, partly because of perception,” said CEO of Drone Detection Company Skysafe, Grant Jordan, said Decrypt. “When an average person sees a drone, they do not know the goal or who serves it. In contrast to helicopters, where the operator is clear, drones are remote and ambiguous.”

One of the most aggressive adopters of monitoring technology is the Ministry of Interior Security and the American immigration and customs enforcement, which have integrated AI in almost every phase of immigration enforcement, from identifying individuals to predicting their chance of skipping court data.

In addition to drones and AI-compatible cameras, ICE uses a variety of AI-driven systems who work behind the scenes with enforcement and detention decisions.

Here are some of the most important technologies used:

Palantir’s Immigration Lifecycle Operating System (ILOS)

• Also known as the ImmigrationosPalantir’s Ilos creates detailed profiles of deportation goals using integrated federal data sets and real -time monitoring.

Analysis of mobile devices

• Used by researchers and analysts to identify and extract evidence, relationships and networks from data from mobile devices, using Machine Learning options to determine locations of interest.

Speech analysis and translation

• A speech analyzetool that uses machine learning to transcribe and translate multilingual audio, allowing agents to identify research leads more efficiently and analyze evidence without solely trusting manual assessment.

Face recognition technology

• Used by research into domestic security to identify victims and perpetrators in matters for the exploitation of children. The technology generates leads on possible identities of victims and perpetrators; However, ICE said that no enforcement action is being taken, exclusively on the basis of these leads.

Hurricane

• Predicts compliance risk for non-detailed immigrants in the supervision of ICE program. Hurricane score is a quasi-incomial, binary classification machine Learning model that receives information about an individual and the chance that the individual will not appear for an hearing, based on patterns that the model has learned from inactive case data.

Although federal agencies claim that the tools improve efficiency and public safety, civil liberties warn proponents that they are often used without transparency or supervision, which causes a hair -raising threat to privacy and has disproportionate influence on immigrants and marginalized communities.

“We know that immigrant communities are confronted with disproportionate police work, in particular black and brown immigrants, and surveillance technology is part of a larger system of control to monitor their daily lives” Decrypt.

“We know that DHS has an arsenal full of armed technology, and the most important goal is to identify and eventually deport individuals. In the hands of ice these technologies pose a danger to the safety of our communities,” Mora added.

She continued: “Surveillance of any nature whatsoever, especially when they are performed by the government or law enforcement, has the potential to cool speech and the rights of people’s first amendment. When it comes to groups that are their right to protest or exercise immigrant communities, we know that surveillance is used to target them and unwanted effects.”

Proponents claim that community involvement is crucial in combating the uncontrolled spread of monitoring technology at the local level.

“In addition to becoming politically active, it is important not to easily accept these technologies and how the government uses them,” said Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst at the ACLU, said Decrypt.

“Local law enforcement and other agencies are supposed to serve the public. That means that if communities object and say:” We do not want the police to use drones about our neighborhoods or store and store our movements, “that should be respected,” Stanley added.

Stanley also said that communities should not inevitably accept the use of surveillance technology.

“We cannot stop its development, but we can decide how it is used in our communities and how government agencies it is and cannot use it,” he said.

Ice and DHS did not respond to Decrypts Requests for comments.

Published by Sebastian Sinclair