Alvaro Deboya with the center said Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the FBI are employing facial recognition to search license databases as states across the nation are urging undocumented people to come out of the shadows and get a drivers license.
“In at least three of them, in Washington, Utah and Vermont, ICE is actually taking advantage of that to secretly find and deport those people using face recognition technology,” Deboya told NPR’s Morning Edition.
But the state Department of Licensing said Monday that it doesn’t cooperate with any immigration-related requests from federal agencies.
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