Immigration Police Can Already Sidestep US Sanctuary City Laws Using Data-Sharing Fusion Centers
“This sort of information sharing capacity on this scale across all these agencies. tapping into everything from local utility records and DMV records to school records has the potential to be deployed in any number of chilling scenarios.”
From Wired, an explanation of how fusion centers, established by the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11 to counter terrorism, already give ICE access to local data from schools and abortion clinics, license plate location data, databases of photos, and a lot more.
Ben Franklin famously said “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
And here we go. Again.
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