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Published in ZORA

·Oct 15, 2019

USCIS 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…

Refugees

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USCIS Is Using Google Translate to Monitor Immigrants’ Social Media Pages
USCIS Is Using Google Translate to Monitor Immigrants’ Social Media Pages
Refugees

6 min read


Published in ZORA

·Jul 19, 2019

At the Border, No One Can Know Your Name

A 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…

Immigration

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At the Border, No One Can Know Your Name
At the Border, No One Can Know Your Name
Immigration

19 min read

Alejandra Oliva

Alejandra Oliva

92 Followers

Essayist, embroiderer, and translator, working for immigrant justice today and every day. | olivalejandra.com

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