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FILE – Border Patrol agents talk with migrants seeking asylum as they prepare them for transportation to be processed, June 5, 2024, near Dulzura, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump鈥檚 promised crackdown on immigration

November 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

鈥淒HS uses AI to assist our personnel in their work, but DHS does not use the outputs of AI systems as the sole basis for any law enforcement action or...

Former police data analyst Davin Hall quit the Greensboro, N.C., police force in part over its use of Fog Reveal, a powerful cellphone-tracking tool. (Allen G. Breed, The Associated Press)

Tech tool offers police 鈥渕ass surveillance … on a budget鈥�

September 10, 2022 at 6:00 a.m.

Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power...

A lamp shines outside police headquarters ...

Tech tool offers police “mass surveillance on a budget”

September 1, 2022 at 9:47 a.m.

Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power...

U.S. held record number of migrant kids in custody in 2019

November 12, 2019 at 7:06 a.m.

The 3-year-old girl traveled for weeks cradled in her father's arms, as he set out to seek asylum in the United States. Now she won't even look at him.

FILE – This June 20, 2019, file frame from video shows the entrance of a Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has told a Texas congresswoman Monday, June 24, that the agency is quickly removing children from the patrol station following reports that children locked inside were in a perilous situation. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)

U.S. moves migrant kids from Texas Border Patrol station after AP exposes bad treatment

June 24, 2019 at 9:20 p.m.

The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 children were detained there, caring for each...

Migrants guide their children through the entrance of a World War II-era bomber hanger in Deming, N.M. on Wednesday, May 22, 2019. A panel of appeals court judges in California will hear arguments in the long-running battle between advocates for immigrant children and the U.S. government over conditions in detention and holding facilities near the southwest border.

Migrant children describe neglect at Texas border facility

June 21, 2019 at 8:30 a.m.

60 children at a Border Patrol station near El Paso describe neglect and mistreatment at the hands of the U.S. government to lawyers Wednesday.

As bishops gather, prosecutors step up scrutiny of Catholic Church

June 11, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

From Michigan to New Mexico, attorneys general are sifting through files on clergy sex abuse this month, seized through search warrants and subpoenas at dozens of archdioceses.

Migrant teens walk inside the Tornillo ...

“A moral disaster”: AP reveals scope of United States’ migrant kids program

December 19, 2018 at 8:12 p.m.

Decades after the U.S. stopped institutionalizing kids because large and crowded orphanages were causing lasting trauma, it is happening again. The federal government has placed most of the 14,300 migrant...

Migrant teens held inside the Tornillo detention camp sit in the Texas facility on Sunday. More than 2,300 teens, mostly from Central America, are being held at the facility. Ivan Pierre Aguirre, Provided to The Associated Press

U.S. waived FBI checks on staff at growing teen migrant camp

November 27, 2018 at 8:56 p.m.

The Trump administration has put the safety of thousands of teens at a migrant detention camp at risk by waiving FBI fingerprint checks for their caregivers and short-staffing mental health...

Araceli Ramos walks with her five-year-old daughter, Alexa, in a park in San Miguel, El Salvador, on Aug. 18, 2018. An Associated Press investigation drawing on hundreds of court documents, immigration records and interviews in the U.S. and Central America identified holes in the system that allow state court judges to grant custody of migrant children to American families, without notifying their parents. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

AP investigation: Deported parents may lose kids to adoption

October 9, 2018 at 11:56 p.m.

As the deportees were led off the plane onto the steamy San Salvador tarmac, an anguished Araceli Ramos Bonilla burst into tears, her face contorted with pain: "They want to...

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