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State Cops Quietly Tag Thousands as Gang Members — and Feed Their Names to ICE | Gang databases are often racially biased and riddled with errors. States and cities send their flawed information to immigration authorities
Gang databases are often racially biased and riddled with errors. States and cities send their flawed information to ICE.
The administration has cited common tattoos and other spurious evidence to create its own lists of supposed gang members, invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to send hundreds to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center prison, also known as CECOT. The case echoed patterns from Trump’s first term, when ICE leaned on similar information from local cops — evidence as flimsy as doodles in a student’s notebook — to label immigrants as gang members eligible for deportation. The Obama administration hired Palantir, the data-mining company co-founded by billionaire former Trump adviser Peter Thiel, to build the proprietary portal, which makes countless records and databases immediately available to ICE agents.
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