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Facial recognition scanners are being trialled at an airport as part of government efforts to improve security and reduce passenger congestion.
The system has been introduced at Manchester Airport. It can be used by adult biometric passport holders from the UK and European Economic Area.
It works by scanning passengers’ faces and comparing it to the photograph [...]

Police departments charged with enforcing federal immigration laws are going broke.

Truthdig | In the past two decades I have had the opportunity to participate in certain experiences pertaining to my work that fall into the category of “no one will ever believe this.” I usually file these away, calling on them only when events transpire that breathe new life into these extraordinary memories. Ron Suskind, [...]

The above events have come to fruition with precision as “foretold” by Tom Clancy.

Americans aren’t known for their rational views on immigration. So it’s no wonder we attack low-wage workers while celebrating immigrant athletes.

Religious groups have called on lawmakers to create ethical and humane approaches to immigration and to protect workers’ rights.

Opposition MPs accused the Government last night of being naive in believing that new microchipped passports would be foolproof against criminals involved in identity theft.
After The Times disclosed that new passports could be cloned and manipulated in minutes and would then be accepted as genuine, MPs also gave warning of serious implications for the security [...]

The Bush Administration is forcing government contractors to verify the status of their work force with the flawed system.

By Jimmy Burns | The Home Office on Tuesday faced claims of “creative accounting” as it pledged to cut nearly £1bn ($2bn) from the cost of the identity card scheme.
According to the latest official estimates, a broadening of the private sector role in the scheme to include involvement in biometric fingerprinting, as already promised by [...]

Coming soon to your neighborhood if McCain has his way — soldiers under orders to “clamp down” and “make sure that the known criminals are kept under control.”

The White House invoked executive privilege yesterday in withholding subpoenaed documents on fired U.S. attorneys out of confidence that it can prevail in court.

People who until recently were released awaiting a hearing are now detained in immigration prisons.

RAW STORY | A new Justice Department report concludes that politics illegally influenced the hiring of career prosecutors and immigration judges, and largely lays the blame on top aides to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Monday’s report singles out the department’s former White House liaison, Monica Goodling, for violating federal law and Justice Department policy by discriminating [...]

Much of today’s immigration from Mexico begins with heavily-subsidized U.S. corn.

By Robert Verkaik and Chris Green | Britain is responsible for the abuse of hundreds of failed asylum-seekers at the hands of private security guards during their forced removal from this country, a report into the treatment of refugees alleges today.
 
The findings, based on nearly 300 cases of alleged physical assault and racial abuse, follows [...]

The groups are paying close attention to the candidates’ statements on the campaign trail.

French PM Nicolas Sarkozy wants to use France’s turn in the EU’s rotating presdiency to “harmonize” European immigration policy.

By John Lettice | The bosses of the UK’s major airlines have attacked plans to force airport workers to enrol in the national ID card scheme, claiming that “the UK aviation industry is being used for political purposes on a project which has questionable public support.”* If anything the move, they say, could reduce security [...]

Pragmatism prevails amid anti-immigrant fervor.

McCain was the anti-immigrant movement’s least favorite candidate and now they face a hard choice: support him or sabotage their party.

The children of those arrested in flashy-but-ineffectual ICE raids — many of whom are U.S. citizens — suffer dire consequences.

By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad | “The public has to be more alert”, warned one “international terrorism expert” in the Daily Mail late last year, because Scotland “is set to become another Israel within five years”. “[A]nti-terror measures will soon become a common feature of life”, he assured the audience, and called for “routine arming of [...]

An open letter to our next American President.

The best analysis of the differences in the candidates’ positions comes from the Spanish-language press.

Immigrant victims of employer abuse can usually get special visas that protect them, but recent immigration raids show that might be changing.

Management-Issues | As the FBI embarks on a $1bn programme to build the world’s largest computer database of peoples’ physical characteristics, UK employers are being warned they need to think long and hard before introducing biometric technology such as iris, fingerprint and palm scans into the workplace.
British HR and employment law organisation Croner has said [...]

The war on ‘illegal immigration’ is a war on poor people, U.S. citizens among them.

A program brings a glimmer of humanity to the tens of thousands detained by the U.S.

By Cath Elliott | It seems incredible now, but on the May 3 1997 I actually celebrated Labour’s election victory. After 18 years of a Conservative government that had cosied up to dictators and murderous regimes around the globe; that had overseen the destruction of the country’s manufacturing and mining industries; that had driven 3 [...]

The mechanisms of immigration law enforcement violate the due process and basic human rights of immigrants.