New from Francesca D'Annunzio: To augment its roughly 6,000 #ICE deportation agents, the #Trump administration has enlisted the help of other federal agencies including the DEA and IRS. But an even more significant expansion may be playing out at county and municipal levels. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-287g-ice-army/
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“All around them people are crying, fainting, & having panic attacks due to the stress,” Welch said. She’s interviewed hundreds of #kids who’ve been detained after crossing the #border. In #Texas, though, she had an unusual experience—some of the #children she met weren’t recent #immigrants. They had been in the country for years.
[This time around, #Trump isn’t just separating & jailing #immigrants, he’s separating & jailing families who are long time residents.]
THE #IMMIGRANT FAMILIES JAILED IN #TEXAS
#Children have long been put in migrant #detention if they were apprehended at the #border. Today, lawyers have found, #families are being removed from stable lives in the #UnitedStates.
#immigration #law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #EthnicCleansing
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-immigrant-families-jailed-in-texas
The New Yorker · The Immigrant Families Jailed in Texas
Why two German teens were turned away at the US border https://www.byteseu.com/948211/ #Advocacy #AI #and #border #Customs #deportation #Enabled #Germany #highlights #honolulu #Immigration #issues #Modular #ModularStory #Negative #Overall #OverallNegative #protection #social #SocialIssuesU0026Advocacy #story #StoryHighlightsAIEnabled #Transportation #Travel #TravelU0026Transportation #U.S. #U.S.CustomsAndBorderProtection #u0026 #VISA #VisaU0026Immigration
How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US #Border
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protect-yourself-from-phone-searches-at-the-us-border/
WIRED · How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border
Last legislative session, lawmakers established an #AI advisory council to review how Texas state agencies are deploying AI. Agencies were required to produce an inventory of their automated decision systems and an overview of how each tool is used. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/
The Texas Observer · Texas’ AI-Powered Surveillance Arsenal Has Ballooned. Proposed Laws Provide Few Guardrails.Operation Lone Star has turbocharged DPS’ surveillance capabilities. Lawmakers say they want to prevent Texas from becoming a police state but have filed only modest legislation to regulate use of AI.
Great story about how Canadians and Americans came together to defy Trump's attempt to destroy a 120 yr old friendship.
In #books: The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019, the largest massacre of Mexican Americans in the history of the United States, prompted the late journalist Richard Parker to take a second look at what was his family’s hometown during his youth. https://www.texasobserver.org/el-paso-untold-story/
The Texas Observer · El Paso's Still-Untold StoryA new revisionist history lays out an urgent task that it does not accomplish.
"#Montgenèvre = #frontière raciste"
"Montgenèvre = racist #border"
-》 Montgenèvre is an Alpine ski resort situated at the border between Italy and France that, since 2016, #migrants try to cross
#Graffiti #StreetArt spotted in #Turin
Ping @RadicalGraffiti
#racisme #migrations #HautesAlpes #montagne
New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:
comics.lucentinian.com/6993
#DailyLaughs #DailyComedy #AIComedy #Jokes #LaughWithAI
comics.lucentinian.comHeavenly Border ControlWhy did the angel get fired from border control?
Because he kept letting everyone in, saying, "We're all children of the same higher power!"
The shuttered DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties “was one of the very few tools we had to check ICE, to hold ICE accountable,” immigration lawyer Sophia Genovese said. “Now you see them speeding to complete authoritarianism.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
ProPublica“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights
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Over the past several years, the #Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has quietly built out an expansive #surveillance apparatus—one that’s increasingly powered by artificial intelligence. Experts say legislative efforts to safeguard privacy don't go nearly far enough. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/
The Texas Observer · Texas’ AI-Powered Surveillance Arsenal Has Ballooned. Proposed Laws Provide Few Guardrails.Operation Lone Star has turbocharged DPS’ surveillance capabilities. Lawmakers say they want to prevent Texas from becoming a police state but have filed only modest legislation to regulate use of AI.
In books: While “restoring the rule of law” to the U.S.-Mexico border has been a resonant and repeated talking point for successive administrations, it is the border walls that they have built, not the border itself, that are lawless.
https://www.texasobserver.org/the-lawless-border-wall/
The Texas Observer · The Lawless Border WallThe application of waivers and the interpretation of their scope has repeatedly expanded, such that border walls are now privileged over all potential legal constraints short of the U.S. Constitution.
Lithuania steps up border security with Belarus https://www.byteseu.com/928776/ #Belarus #border #Lithuania
#ICYMI: “People are scared to go out because they go out with their kids, and they don’t want to go to a place where (people are) going to show up with guns to check whether they’re a U.S. citizen or not. That was very upsetting for a lot of people.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-raids-abbys-bakery-valley-los-fresnos/
In our magazine: Operation Lone Star, Gov. Greg Abbott's ever-growing #border boondoggle, has unleashed a massive windfall for private contractors. Justin Miller examines who some of the biggest "winners" are ...
https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-operation-lone-star-contractors-bonanza/
In #books: For too long, the story of El Paso told by Hollywood filmmakers, news reporters, and cowboy historians has been that of a Wild West frontier town full of outlaws. ... These self-perpetuating tropes still predominate in mass #media.
https://www.texasobserver.org/el-paso-untold-story/
This is what travelling to the U.S. is like as a Canadian right now
When I booked my flight from Canada to the United States last year, I didn't anticipate U.S. border rules to tighten so drastically.My friends had set an April 2025 date for their wedding in Orlando, Florida, well before Donald Trump became America's 47th president.Little did we know that ...
#travel #politics #immigration #border #Canada #UnitedStates
https://www.blogto.com/travel/2025/04/what-travelling-us-canadian-right-now/
