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8-Year-Old Migrant Boy Dies In Government Custody In New Mexico Hospital

3:37pm December 25, 2018

by Francesca Paris

The Guatemalan child died after midnight on Tuesday in Alamogordo, N.M. He's the second child to die in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody this month.

Passengers use facial recognition scanners before boarding a British Airways flight in Orlando, Fla.

Facial Scanning Now Arriving At U.S. Airports

5:00am March 16, 2018

by Brian Naylor

Airlines say taking a picture of your face speeds boarding, and Homeland Security says it stops fraud. But critics worry about privacy and bias.

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A now-deleted tweet from @ALT_USCIS was included in a complaint Twitter filed against the Department of Homeland Security. Twitter says DHS tried to unmask the user behind this account, which has "expressed dissent in a range of different ways," including

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Twitter Sues Homeland Security To Protect Anonymity Of 'Alt Immigration' Account

8:20pm April 06, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

After the Trump administration set limits on some government Twitter accounts, anonymous "rogue accounts" popped up. Homeland Security demanded to know who was behind one; Twitter is fighting back.

Cars line up to cross into the U.S. at the Canadian border on Feb. 25, in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec.

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Canadians Report More Scrutiny And Rejection At U.S. Border Checkpoints

4:08pm March 29, 2017

by Joel Rose

Immigration lawyers say they've seen a spike in the number of Canadians turned back at the U.S. border since January. But federal officials insist that no policies have changed on the American side.