This month, ICE inspectors toured the giant new Fort Bliss tent camp for migrants, built in under two months. They found 60 violations of federal detention standards, many of which directly impacted the safety of workers and detainees, we reported today in @washingtonpost.com 🧵-->

ICE is sprinting to 100k immigrant detention beds this year, and we got the internal road map. It includes: ✅ More large-scale facilities ✅ More soft-sided tent cities ✅ Record number of family detention beds Details in story @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/45hE9fq 🧵 Threading highlights ->

We got ICE documents revealing their initial plans to expand detention centers across the US. From @douglasmac.bsky.social, N Kirkpatrick & the data team's Lydia Sidhom: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

My latest on ICE’s business ties: One of the key figures overseeing ICE’s unprecedented detention surge worked the last 12 years as an executive and consultant for private prison firm Geo Group and got an ethics waiver to work on Geo matters. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The more I dig into the unfolding immigration crackdown at ICE, the more I find evidence of a business motive at play. My latest story details a new policy to sharply expand the number of immigrants on GPS ankle monitors -- and make $$$ for a Florida private prison conglomerate. wapo.st/3TY4bOf

Florida man arrested for child predation based on a bad facial recognition match: "This is f***ing nuts" As has been the case in other wrongful arrests, police showed facial recognition search results to eyewitnesses. This is a terrible practice, should be banned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=He8-...

Congress allocated $45 billion to spend locking up immigrants over the next four years — more than the government spent on ICE detention during the Obama, Biden and first Trump administrations combined. Story: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Congress allocated $45 billion to spend locking up immigrants over the next four years — more than the government spent on ICE detention during the Obama, Biden and first Trump administrations combined. Story: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

My reporting showed New Orleans police were likely violating a local ordinance by running a live facial recognition surveillance program. The city's response: Legalize this technology. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Border czar Tom Homan, captain of the "zero tolerance" policy that split migrant parents from their kids, was paid money by the private-prison company that profits off detaining immigrants. Drain the swamp www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... @douglasmac.bsky.social @aaronschaffer.com

One of the hard lines on facial recognition technology in the U.S. has been using it to do live searches on real-time cameras. The Washington Post reports that's been happening in New Orleans, however, by a police-adjacent nonprofit called PROJECT NOLA. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

New Orleans police used secret network of 200 facial recognition cameras to scan people on public streets and ping nearby cops. The "technology nightmare scenario that we have been worried about" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... @douglasmac.bsky.social @aaronschaffer.com

Immigrants are being forced to sleep on floors at overwhelmed ICE detention centers: “You’re stripped from your humanity" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... @douglasmac.bsky.social

Christopher Gatlin spent 16 months in jail after being charged with assault in St. Louis. Another incident of police relying too heavily on facial recognition tech: www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

Biased facial recognition algorithms combined with law enforcement misuse of that technology is a recipe for injustice. It must end. Congress must pass my bill to place a moratorium on government and law enforcement use of these tools. www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

We made a podcast that delves into the “outrageously dystopian” story of Chris Gatlin, the St. Louis man jailed for 16 months after police connected him to an assault using facial recognition and one very dubious witness statement. Produced by Emma Talkoff www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...

I've spent the past year obsessed with how police are using facial recognition. What I found: Police in 12 states have used these tools to find and arrest suspects when they have no other evidence, leading to wrongful arrests wapo.st/4fQYlXn 🧵 what I learned from 1,000 docs & dozens of sources ->