As the U.S. government ramps up its efforts to rid the nation of illegal immigrants, it is turning to a bevy of new technologies to help it sift through the domestic population. Increasingly, the Trump administration is using facial recognition, and a new report now claims that the Department of Homeland Security is even distributing face recording tech to local police departments to assist with immigration enforcement operations.

404 Media writes that Customs and Border Protection recently released an app called Mobile Identify onto the Google Play Store that seems to be designed to use biometric scanning on potential detainees. The app is being made available to state and local law enforcement agencies as part of a program called 287(g) , which essentially deputizes officials within

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