immigration and customs enforcement
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ICE Backs Down on Inhuman Threat to Strip Visas From International Students in Online Classes
After being sued by dozens of institutions, Donald Trump’s administration has backed off its bullshit plan to deny entry to international students (or require they leave the country) if their institutions switch to online-only instruction during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Trump Admin Plan To Collect DNA From Detained Migrants, Asylum Seekers Will Begin Soon
The Trump administration’s plan to collect DNA evidence from migrants detained in U.S. Customs and Borders Protection (CBP) facilities will commence soon in the form of a 90-day pilot program in Detroit and Southwest Texas, CNN reported on Monday.
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Won’t Someone Please Think Of Microsoft?
Late last night, an email leaked to advocacy group Fight For The Future detailing how Github — the code repository Microsoft bought last year for $US7.5 billion ($11 billion) — would be renewing its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency at the forefront of carrying out the Trump administration’s xenophobic war on…
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Palantir’s Github Page Is The New Battleground In The Fight Against ICE
Tech activists continue to organise and win across many of the industry’s biggest firms — and increasingly the online spaces tech workers gather are becoming battlegrounds in their own right. Take Palantir’s Github page this morning, for example: Starting around 12 PM ASET, concerned users plan to mass flag “issues” with the most popular repositories the…