Border Report Live

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has obtained nearly $10 million in new facial recognition technology. The new technology will utilize artificial intelligence, allowing federal agents to, among other things, scrape images from social media during investigations.
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations has said it will use the technology in cases where law enforcement officers were assaulted, and in cases of child sexual exploitation.
The use of such technology, however, raises concerns over privacy.
In this episode of Border Report Live, correspondent Sandra Sanchez speaks with Don Bell, policy counsel for the Constitution Project at the Project on Government Oversight. Among the concerns are possible civil rights violations from AI technology being prone to inaccuracy and misidentifying women and people of color at a higher rate than other people.

The New York Times reported in August that President Trump signed a secret directive for the Pentagon to use military force against Latin American drug cartels. The U.S. military on September 2 struck a speedboat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela, killing 11 people purportedly associated with Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang. Trump reported two additional strikes on cartel boats this month. In this episode, we talk to Ilan Katz, a criminal defense attorney based in Mexico City. He shares his thoughts on what we've been seeing in the Atlantic Ocean as the Trump administration attempts to stop the drug cartel boats that are exporting drugs into the United States with military strikes

In this episode of Border Report Live, a one-on-one with Jim Harrington, who worked as a civil rights lawyer alongside César Chávez and founded the Texas Civil Rights Project to offer free legal services for migrants and farmworkers and other vulnerable populations. Harrington returned to deep South Texas this week to promote his new book: “The Texas Civil Rights Project: How We Built a Social Justice Movement.” Border Report correspondent spoke with Harrington about how he got started and his thoughts on the current political climate.

As Hispanic Heritage Month gets underway on Monday, fear of immigration crackdowns has prompted officials in many cities to cancel celebrations. From Oregon to Massachusetts, many towns have called off Mexican Independence Day events, which often begin with large gatherings the night before on Sept. 15. In this episode of Border Report Live, correspondent Julian Resendiz and host Rudy Mireles, discuss how some officials are hoping to use these events as an opportunity to teach others about Hispanic culture and the contributions of immigrants.

The use of new artificial intelligence to gather data on immigrants in the United States is expected to increase after the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement purchased almost $10 million for new facial recognition technology.
According to reports, the $9.2 million contract with Clearview AI is for the agency’s Homeland Security Investigations teams data to use in cases where law enforcement officers were assaulted, and in cases of child sexual exploitation.
In the latest episode of Border Report Live, correspondents Sandra Sanchez and Julian Resendiz talk about new AI technology that the United States and Mexico are using for facial identification at ports of entry and in border cities.

Pedro Rios says immigration agents are picking low-hanging fruit when they target Home Depots, construction sites and other informal job sites to arrest undocumented immigrants.Rios, director of American Friends Service Committee’s U.S.-Mexico Border Program, added that the Supreme Court this week legitimized those controversial tactics when it cleared the way for agents to stop people solely based on their race, language, job or location.On this episode of Border Report Live, Rios speaks with correspondent Salvador Rivera about the ruling and its effects on communities in Southern California. Rios said such tactics have been used in the past, and he argues that the ruling will erode the protections that many people have come to expect.  

The largest non-governmental migrant shelter in the Mexican border city of Juarez recently hosted a health fair. Other smaller shelters even bused in folks from all over town. And while children received immunizations and some adults diabetes screenings, migrants were also offered substance abuse counseling and some much-needed therapy to address some of the trauma they faced during their journey to the border.In this episode of Border Report Live, correspondent Julian Resendiz shares some of the stories he heard during last week’s health fair. The resources sent to help migrants underscore the new role that Latin American countries have taken on since President Trump took office and announced a crackdown on illegal immigration that includes mass deportation and shutting down asylum.Also, a legal aid group discussed the moments leading up to the planned deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children who were already boarded on planes when their removal was blocked.

Twenty-six undocumented Mexican workers were taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a high-profile raid at an automotive plant in Georgia.
The Mexican consulate in Atlanta said 23 were being held at the ICE detention center in Folkston, Ga., and three more at the Stewart detention center in Lumpkin.
In this episode Border Report correspondent Julian Resendiz talks about the detentions and how most of the workers have signed voluntary departure documents and will be repatriated to Mexico within days.
He'll also discuss the one year anniversary of the horror in Mexico's Pacific Coast. 1,850 dead and 800 missing as a result of warfare between two factions of the Sinaloa cartel. The fighting broke out on Sept. 9, 2024 10 weeks after a son of jailed drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman abducted his father's partner, Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada, and flew him to a small New Mexico airport where both were taken into custody by U.S. authorities.