EFF: Keep Border Spy Tech Out of Dreamer Protection Bills
Keep Border Spy Tech Out of Dreamer Protection Bills If Congress votes this month on legislation to protect Dreamers from deportation, any bill it considers should not include invasive surveillance technologies like biometric screening, social media snooping, automatic license plate readers, and drones. Such high tech spying would unduly intrude on the privacy of immigrants and Americans who live near the border and travel abroad. How We Got Here In September 2017, President Trump announced that, effective March 2018, his administration would end the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ( DACA ) program, which protects from deportation some 800,000 young adults (often called Dreamers) brought to the United States as children. In January 2018, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) promised to hold a vote in February 2018 on an immigration bill that protects Dreamers. In response to this promise, Democratic Party Senators voted with Republican Par...