Published in ZORA·Oct 15, 2019Member-onlyUSCIS Is Using Google Translate to Monitor Immigrants’ Social Media Pages‘Dangerous’ or anti-American posts cannot be screened through translation services, which do not provide the full context — Recently, ProPublica reported that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has been using Google Translate in order to screen refugee and asylum seekers’ social media posts for “dangerous” content. We’ve already seen one example of someone being barred from the country for social media posts — although not even his…Refugees6 min readRefugees6 min read
Published in ZORA·Jul 19, 2019Member-onlyAt the Border, No One Can Know Your NameA volunteer helping families cross over into California shares the painstaking process — I spent the second week of 2019 in Tijuana, Baja California. Or rather, I spent the nights of that week in San Diego, and every morning — as the sun rose over parking lots and outlet malls and border fences — I’d walk across the footbridge at PedWest, 7-Eleven coffee…Immigration19 min readImmigration19 min read
