immigration

ICE 内部邮件显示，其下属机构正考虑将选民登记数据接入由 Palantir 支持的 ELITE 执法系统，以调查所谓的选民欺诈。相关文件由民主前进组织（Democracy Forward）通过信息公开法申请获得并公开。

Detainees at Georgia's Folkston ICE Processing Center used the facility's tablet-based video calling software to expose poor detention conditions, sparking retaliation, an open letter, and a hunger strike. The story highlights the role of proprietary prison communications software like GettingOut by Telmate, which detained people are forced to rely on at high cost.

The Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program, affecting the company's ability to sponsor permanent residency for foreign workers amid stricter immigration policy scrutiny.

Despite making foreign AI researcher recruitment a national priority with new visas and lucrative grants, China is struggling to attract talent, as the number of Chinese scientists working in the US continues to rise.

The EFF and ACLU are urging the D.C. Circuit to vacate an FAA drone flight restriction that criminalized recording immigration agents, arguing it violates the First Amendment right to record law enforcement.

A federal judge issued an injunction against the administration's attempt to limit student visas to 4 years, which could have negatively impacted the STEM talent pipeline in the US.

This paper introduces ImmigrationReason, a large-scale structured dataset of U.S. immigration appeals for legal reasoning research, addressing the gap in administrative adjudication data for NLP studies.

Reposting a Nikkei investigation report: Among the highly skilled foreign talents referred to as "highly skilled foreign personnel," 45% earn less than the average starting salary of university graduates. In practice, they are mostly treated as supplementary labor for understaffed workplaces, which contradicts the original intent of the system.

NBER working paper examining the long-run economic effects of H-1B immigration on the U.S. economy, released July 2026.

The US Commerce Department is circulating a proposal to stop collecting census data on race and sexual orientation, and to exclude undocumented immigrants from the count for the 2030 census, which could reshape federal funding and political representation.

A WIRED investigation reveals ICE collected nearly 1 million DNA profiles from detained immigrants—including children—into the FBI's CODIS criminal database, raising serious privacy and legality concerns.

A leaked ICE inventory reveals 115 surveillance and analytics systems used for immigration enforcement, connecting data from government, commercial, and social media sources, highlighting the scale of data-driven enforcement.

The Trump administration is suing several states over laws that require ICE agents to show their faces during raids, citing safety concerns and the risk of doxing via facial recognition tools like ICESpy, which the project's creator says is ineffective and barely used.

The DHS plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for access to personal data to investigate alleged voter fraud and immigration fraud, raising privacy and civil liberties concerns.

ICE plans to renew a contract with Thomson Reuters subsidiary TRSS for up to $25 million per year to access data tools for identifying unaccompanied minors and fraud, marking a significant expansion of data-driven immigration enforcement under the Trump administration.

A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration's policy to revoke visas and deport non-US citizens working in content moderation, ruling that the policy was overly broad and lacked clear justification.

Trump's anti-science stance is reportedly driving top scientists to move to China, impacting the global research landscape.

The US government announced that foreign influencers creating monetized content about the 2026 World Cup must obtain work visas, affecting FIFA's partnerships with YouTube and TikTok creators.

A former Meta employee, laid off in a recent round of cuts, was reportedly detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, raising concerns among colleagues about the company's support for immigrant workers amid heightened enforcement.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup will see extensive deployment of surveillance technologies including facial recognition and counter-drone systems, raising concerns about potential misuse for immigration enforcement and privacy violations.