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A CBP Agent Wore Meta Smart Glasses to an Immigration Raid in Los Angeles Video obtained and verified by 404 Media shows a CBP official wearing Meta's AI glasses, which are capable of recording and connecting with AI. “I think it should be seen in the context of an agency t...

New from 404 Media: we've seen and verified video of a CBP agent wearing Meta's AI glasses during immigration raid in LA. Glasses capable of recording, live-streaming, Meta plans to add facial recognition. Experts deeply concerned about this tech being abused by DHS www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-...

White text: "We asked:" above blue text that says, "What has Head Start done for you?" Below that, white text says "You answered" beside an arrow pointing to the right. Image of a child photographed from the back, standing and wearing a backpack. An ACLU logo. Light orange background.

White text: "What has Head Start done for you?" Below that, blue text says “'It was like another home while my mom worked late hours — we were low income.'” Image of a Black child playing with blocks - the photo is tinted blue. An ACLU logo. Bottom right is an arrow pointing to the right. Light orange background.

White text: "What has Head Start done for you?" Below that, blue text says “'Helped my child be seen by a developmental specialist. She’s made friends and loves them.'” Image of four children sitting beside one another at a park, cropped to show the lower halves of their bodies. An ACLU logo. Bottom right is an arrow pointing to the right. Light orange background.

White text: "What has Head Start done for you?" Below that, blue text says “'I’m a pediatric occupational therapist in early intervention. It protects kids and families!!!'” Image of a backpack. An ACLU logo. Bottom right is an arrow pointing to the right. Light orange background.

The Trump administration’s attacks on Head Start are an attack on working and immigrant families.

We’re fighting in court to defend people’s access to this essential program.

Humbled to see my work published. Thanks to members of the Editorial Board of the Seattle University Law Review Online for their incredible assistance in making this article better. Pa' Lante.

digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sulr_supra/36/

The charges against Prof. Willoughby-Herard were finally dropped yesterday. She courageously defended UCI students against police stifling dissent against Israel's genocide in Gaza. I am inspired by her courage and honored to have represented her in this case. Solidarity with those who fight.

U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.

“In practice, the Data Consortium would provide a one-stop shop for agencies to cheaply purchase access to vast amounts of Americans’ sensitive information from commercial entities, sidestepping constitutional and statutory privacy protections.”

58% of women in prison are mothers to minor children. Of those women, most are single mothers.

Hundreds of births take place in prisons and jails every year, often with the baby immediately separated from the parent after birth.

Families belong together, not separated by prison bars.

They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination.

“the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”

State department official filed affidavit to comply with Judge Xinis’ order for daily updates on Abrego García. Says he is alive at CECOT and being “detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador,” which is something that the plaintiffs will certainly dispute

Thanks Delaware Law for inviting me to speak at your Dignity Law conference. Incredible event.

404 Media saw a recent version of the database, which allows filtering according to hundreds of different categories, which include things like resident status and entry status (“refugee,” “border crossing card,” “nonimmigrant alien refused admission,” “temporary protective status alien,” “nonimmigrant alien transiting without visa,” “undocumented alien,”); “unique physical characteristics (e.g. scars, marks, tattoos)”; “criminal affiliation”; location data; license plater reader data; country of origin; hair and eye color; race; social security number; birthplace; place of employment; driver’s license status; bankruptcy filings, and hundreds more. A source familiar with the database told 404 Media that it is made up of “tables upon tables” of data and that it can build reports that show, for example, people who are on a specific type of visa who came into the country at a specific port of entry, who came from a specific country, and who have a specific hair color (or any number of hundreds of data points).

New from 404 Media: we've seen an ICE database that filters people by hundreds of different, highly specific categories. Experts say possibly helping ICE identify and deport people. Scars, location data, immigration status, eye color, much more. Created by Palantir

www.404media.co/inside-a-pow...

Spend my afternoon talking about citizenship, using Captain Picard, Walter Rodney, Marx, WB Dubois, Dussell, Bosch and el rockero Meléndez-Badillo in our panel hosted by The Bell Collective at Albany Law. Pa’Lante.

Check out my new Nature article. I call for avoiding distractions like false solutions to climate change, following environmental justice and Jemez Principles, strengthening EJ-labor collaboration, & redistributing organizing resources away from the big greens & into the hands of grassroots groups.

“‘Que vergonha!’, disse a funcionária da Microsoft Ibtihal Aboussad, dirigindo-se diretamente ao CEO de IA, Mustafa Suleyman. ‘Você é um mercador da guerra. Pare de usar a IA para genocídio. Você tem sangue nas mãos. Como vocês têm a audácia de celebrar enquanto a Microsoft está matando crianças.’”

Debí tirar más foto de cuando te tuve, debí darte más besos y abrazos las veces que puede. Ojalá que los míos nunca se muden. Y si hoy me emborracho, pa’ que me ayuden. Toy bien loco, toy bien loco.

#publicdefender friends, I'm looking to diversify my pool of potential expert witnesses. Can anyone recommend any of the following who work for defense?

- SANE nurses, especially those who still see patients

- Forensic or ER nurses

- Forensic pathologists

- Toxicologists

Jajajaj me escribes.

Orgulloso por compartir el borrador de mi artículo, Puerto Ricopticon: las nuevas tecnologías de vigilancia en Puerto Rico y su inconstitucionalidad. Cualquier comentario es bienvenido.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Interested in dignity as a legal concept in teaching, advocacy, and scholarship? Come join us at Widener Law Delaware April 11. I’ll be moderating a panel on dignity and crim law w/ @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social, Terrell Woolfolk, Jocelyn Getgen-Kestenbaum & Dwayne Bensing of ACLU-DE

Some time ago, a student told me that when she told her mom that her law professor in the U.S. was from Puerto Rico, and that he spoke Spanish, she started to cry. She couldn’t believe that her daughter would find someone in this space she could relate to. That was a very special conversation.

Algorithms Deny Humans Health Care | The Regulatory Review Scholar argues that FDA has the authority to regulate coverage algorithms used by health care insurers.

Excellent coverage of forthcoming research from Prof. @jennoliva.bsky.social, who has examined the use of AI algorithms to determine patient coverage.

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Court records say that at least one employee of Puerto Rico’s Treasury Department (Hacienda) has been “deputized” by the ATF.

A look into the objections to a recent report and recommendation in the PR municipalities climate RICO case

heavyweather.media/weather-repo...

The airport panopticon is getting people deported and detained One lawyer called it a ‘feedback loop’ of surveillance.

Visa holders face more risk than US citizens & permanent residents from device searches at ports of entry, Saira Hussain told @theverge.com. “If you refuse a search of your phone or your laptop, customs officers can use that to potentially revoke your visa.”

Thanks!

My paper Legal Tech Abolition: Using legal technology to free them all, co-authored with Dr. Michael Chou from Providence College, has found a home at The Ohio State Technology Law Journal, Vol. 22. If you have any comments, feel free to reach out. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Excited to present my paper: The Founder's Gaze, How the 4th Amendment is a surveillance technology that enables AI to scale control over the subaltern next Friday @ St. John's Center for Race and Law. Register here to attend this conference vitrtually. Thanks. www.stjohns.edu/law/academic...

Perfect time for nations to delink from empire.

Excited to share that my short piece: Towards a Critical Legal Technology Education: A Decolonial Approach has a home with the Seattle University Law Review Online. Pa'Lante. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....