April 24, 2025

CBP deploys Clearview AI as ICE facial recognition triggers false arrests

Faulty algorithms jail innocent Americans without trial

🛡️National Security📜Constitutional Law✊Civil Rights

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a U.S. citizen with a Social Security card, was wrongfully arrested by ICE on April 16, 2025 and held for 30 hours due to a faulty “biometric confirmation” facial recognition match (Question 2; Slate ICE Facial Recognition).

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is using artificial intelligence to scour federal workers’ communications for language deemed hostile to President Trump (Question 1; Context Surveillance Report).

U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a request for information in May 2025 seeking solutions to capture facial images of vehicle occupants at ports of entry for comparison in CBP’s Traveler Verification Service (Question 10; Federal News CBP Request).

🛡️National Security📜Constitutional Law✊Civil Rights

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What happened to U.S. citizen Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez in April 2025?

ICE agents held which U.S. citizen at gunpoint due to mistaken identity?

According to civil rights groups, facial recognition creates what type of effect on political dissent?

What does CBP want to capture facial images of according to their new technology request?

What surveillance technology is Trump using to target federal workers' communications?

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People, bills, and sources

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez

U.S. citizen

Donald J. Trump

President of the United States

What you can do

File a Freedom of Information Act request at https://www.ice.gov/foia to obtain records of ICE’s biometric confirmation analyses—include the date “April 16, 2025” and any case or arrest numbers you have (Question 2; Slate ICE Facial Recognition).

Immigrants and visa applicants should export their full social media archives via each platform’s account settings, then review and remove or contextualize any posts that could be classified as anti-Semitic, since “anti-Semitic activity” screening may lead to visa denial (Question 3; Context Immigration Surveillance).

Visit https://www.congress.gov and search “facial recognition ban” to identify and track federal bills proposing to prohibit facial recognition technology; use the bill number and sponsor information to submit feedback to relevant House and Senate committee clerks listed on each bill’s summary page (Question 20; Slate Complete Ban).