{"id":382287,"date":"2018-10-25T02:34:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T01:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-amazon-microsoft-and-tech-giants-are-powering-trumps-deportations\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T02:34:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T01:34:59","slug":"how-amazon-microsoft-and-tech-giants-are-powering-trumps-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-amazon-microsoft-and-tech-giants-are-powering-trumps-deportations\/","title":{"rendered":"How Amazon, Microsoft and Tech Giants Are Powering Trump\u2019s Deportations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A shocking new investigation by immigrant rights groups reveals how corporations like Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft are profiting from and expediting Trump\u2019s incarceration and deportation operations. Some 10 percent of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s $44 billion budget is dedicated to data management. The report was published as new documents obtained by the Project on Government Oversight show Amazon is pushing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to start using its controversial facial recognition technology that could identify immigrants in real time by scanning faces in a video feed. We speak with Jacinta Gonz\u00e1lez, organizer with Mijente, a national political hub for Latinx organizing. The group partnered with the Immigrant Defense Project and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild on the new <\/span>report<\/a> <\/span>titled \u201cWho\u2019s Behind <\/span>ICE<\/span>? The Tech and Data Companies Fueling Deportations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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JUAN<\/span> <\/span>GONZ\u00c1LEZ:<\/strong> <\/span>We end today\u2019s show looking at a shocking new <\/span>report<\/a> <\/span>titled \u201cWho\u2019s Behind <\/span>ICE<\/span>? The Tech and Data Companies Fueling Deportations.\u201d The new report by Mijente, the National Immigration Project and the Immigrant Defense Project details how corporations like Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft are profiting from and expediting President Trump\u2019s incarceration and deportation operations. Currently about 10 percent of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s $44 billion budget is dedicated to data management. The report is being published as new documents obtained by the Project on Government Oversight show that Amazon is pushing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to start using its controversial facial recognition technology that could identify immigrants in real time by scanning faces in a video feed.<\/p>\n

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A shocking new investigation by immigrant rights groups reveals how corporations like Amazon, Palantir and Microsoft are profiting from and expediting Trump\u2019s incarceration and deportation operations. Some 10 percent of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s $44 billion budget is dedicated to data management. The report was published as new documents obtained by the Project on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}