Big Data
Transgressing Borders
Racist gang profiling on the street becomes hard data, which then feeds a sprawling detention and deportation machine with the imprimatur of law.
4 posts in ‘ice detention’
Racist gang profiling on the street becomes hard data, which then feeds a sprawling detention and deportation machine with the imprimatur of law.
I finished my sentence more than seven years ago. But I’m still trapped in an immigration prison, where the punishment endures.
Simply targeting the corporations caging migrants and other people for profit won’t create a future without mass incarceration.
Immigration imprisonment routinely relies on a racist notion of “risk” and should be abolished. A glimpse at how ICE’s pro-detention algorithm is manipulated to incarcerate immigrants shows why.