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Yvette Clarke: “Using this technology to help ICE target immigrants for deportation doesn't protect us from terrorism; it terrorizes…”

On the recordJuly 9, 2019
Using this technology to help ICE target immigrants for deportation doesn't protect us from terrorism; it terrorizes hardworking families.
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Yvette Clarke
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Clarke criticizes the use of facial recognition by ICE as harmful to immigrant families.

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