In what is being critiqued as one avenue of attack against legal immigration, the Trump administration is considering a new policy that would target foreign-born people living in the U.S. who have received, or have U.S. citizen children who have received, public assistance. The policy would allow immigration officials to consider a broad range of public benefits programs as potential disqualifiers for immigrants pursuing legal residency, thus cutting off hundreds of thousands from legal status and even a pathway to citizenship. We want to emphasize that this document is not yet law, but rather a draft proposal of potential new rules.
Read MoreImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has recently been granted access to a vast database of license plate records, with the aim of using the information in investigations of undocumented immigrants’ movement and locations. ICE struck a deal with Vigilant Solutions, a private firm specializing in data collection and analysis for law enforcement.
Vigilant’s License Plate Recognition platform collects billions of pieces of data to help match license plates to both people and locations, and even offers..
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