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EileenO'Farrell's avatar

No one in the musk/45 administration gives a shit about these kids being trafficked. (Unless they can profit from it) It's a data mining scheme for musk.

Comment-Tater's avatar

How else are you going to stop child trafficking? These kids don't have passports or driver's licenses. All they have are their biometrics. Even if not 100% accurate, it's a step in the right direction.

B C's avatar

I'm sure Jeff Epstein's pal Donald Trump is doing this to stop child trafficking.

Kate Madison's avatar

But, of course.It is an issue about which he feels strongly. )-:

Eliza Aspen's avatar

Pure collection of (spotty and possibly inaccurate/underdeveloped) data in and of itself does nothing to protect vulnerable or trafficked people, it'll just be sold up the data extraction chain, those resources should be going to actually reunite families or provide mental/physical care for people who may have experienced trafficking

Bernard Cleyet's avatar

But may be useful in the case of separation from parents. Many of the separations earlier have not resulted in reuniting.

Palindrome3777's avatar

conservative press blaming the biden admin...

Ashe's avatar

Did you read the article? This was actual on-site investigative journalism.Madeline Rowley —not Riley.

Crispy's avatar

Again, Ken, thank you for putting this out there, we are grateful to your reporting, and for keeping us focussed on what’s actually happening

Mickel Knight's avatar

Wouldn’t want to anything get in the way of child trafficking would we?

Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

It's past 2 am here, and I can't think. Please remind me which invasive, immoral, unethical, or deadly practice has our government done to non-citizens that hasn't eventually happened to citizens?

Mike's avatar

Same shit as Afghanistan. It doesn’t work.

thestatelottery's avatar

I'm surprised these goddamn capitalist monsters aren't branding barcodes on these innocent children. Fucking despicable.

Amanirenas's avatar

They need to sue the US government. This is illegal, immoral and dangerous. The very idea that they’re targeting minors reeks of human trafficking.

Lori's avatar

I don't like biometric theft...at all....and I wonder without it, how will children be reunited with parents?

AG Fromuth's avatar

Excellent policy Everyday we have gargantuan improvement on the criminal negligence practiced by Biden admin

J. Thrasher's avatar

We're in the 20s but it feels like the 30s from last century. Time to cue up Neil Young's "Coming Apart at Every Nail."

Tom Krausse's avatar

No, J. Thrasher: We are in the late 1930’s in Germany when “THE ORANGE BUFFOON’S “ namesake ADOLF HITLER WAS COMING INTO HIS OWN WITH HIS FASCIST VIEWS TOWARDS THE REST OF THE WORLD. The only difference is HITLER WAS TARGETING JEWISH PEOPLE NOT HISPANIC INDIVIDUALS LIKE DON THE CON ESPECIALLY MINOR CHILDREN ! Extremely interesting they both utilized BIOMETRIC DATA TO TRACK INDIVIDUALS BUT TRUMP’S DATA IS MORE REFINED THAN HITLER’S due to TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS !

Jonathan Davis's avatar

Given that the Trump administration lost track of children’s parents during his first term, I’m skeptical that anything remotely moral will come of this. While creating a stable border situation with effective procedures is understandable, collecting data that deteriorates in usefulness quickly seems incredibly ineffective. This strikes me as just another barrier designed to give the illusion of action without actually being productive.

Sean's avatar

So they had the ability to do this for years and all it took was flipping the proverbial switch. The camps and cages were built by Obama, and Biden and Trump used them.

Denise O'Leary-Siemer's avatar

Biometrics collected from adult immigrants?