{"id":251909,"date":"2026-05-21T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/newly-released-footage-highlights-ices-use-of-facial-recognition-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:35:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:35:41","slug":"newly-released-footage-highlights-ices-use-of-facial-recognition-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/newly-released-footage-highlights-ices-use-of-facial-recognition-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly Released Footage Highlights ICE\u2019s Use of Facial Recognition Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newly Released Footage Highlights ICE\u2019s Use of Facial Recognition Technology<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/newly-released-footage-highlights-ices-use-of-facial-recognition-technology\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-21 16:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: truthout.org<\/a><\/p>\n

By Shireen Akram-Boshar<\/strong><\/p>\n

This article was originally published by Truthout<\/p>\n

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The technology is used on both immigrants and \u201clegal observers, peaceful protestors, and US citizens,\u201d an analyst noted.<\/p>\n

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The Guardian has published newly-released body camera footage showing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents using facial recognition technology to identify farm workers in Oregon after violently arresting them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The videos were initially released in court in an ongoing class action lawsuit against ICE\u2019s arrest practices \u2013 which include arresting people without a warrant, manufacturing paperwork and creating warrants after making arrests, using quotas, and targeting entire neighborhoods. These practices have become known as \u201carrest first, justify later.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The footage, which is from an ICE arrest in October 2025, shows an ICE agent using his phone to take an image of the face of one of the detained farm workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This followed video footage of ICE officers stopping a van that was heading to a job site, shattering the van\u2019s windows, and violently detaining the seven farm workers inside it. When one of the farm workers attempts to call 911 and ask for a lawyer, an ICE agent demands that she turn her phone off, and exits the video.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wants to lawyer up,\u201d one ICE agent says to other agents. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t want to identify herself, we\u2019ll just take her.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the woman repeats that she wants to call the police, the ICE agent says, \u201cWhat are the police going to do? We are the police.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Agents then pull her out of the van, as the woman says, \u201cThis can\u2019t happen to us. They\u2019re using force.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

After detaining the workers and restraining them outside of a building, an ICE agent is seen holding a phone up to one worker\u2019s face, appearing to scan his face. Later, one of the agents can be heard saying, \u201cMobile Fortify couldn\u2019t find him,\u201d referring to the facial recognition application used by ICE and Customs and…<\/p>\n

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