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Fingerprint App Reportedly Helps ICE Deport Immigrants

A mobile fingerprinting app called EDDIE may have become key to President Trump’s immigrant deportation crackdown.

Deanna Garcia

Nov 25, 2020

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers making arrests

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Immigration rights groups allege a mobile fingerprinting app called EDDIE has become key to President Trump’s deportation crackdown. In a 2017 lawsuit, immigrant rights groups gained access to 2,500 pages of documentation that showed ICE officials used EDDIE to run remote ID checks in the field. This allowed ICE to learn the immigration status of individuals and facilitate the deportations of people not targeted for removal, such as those caught up in another person’s arrest or deportation. Advocates say the app helps intensify racial profiling in immigrant communities. The Department of Homeland Security has proposed collecting more biometric data from immigrants. VOA News 

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