Just Futures Law

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We're a movement lawyering org working with grassroot organizers to dismantle the deportation machine with innovative legal and policy strategies. Learn more: www.justfutureslaw.org

“...In our current climate, militarized immigration forces leverage credit header data to locate community members without a warrant. This is a blatant abuse of our personal data & lawmakers need to step in to rein it in.” 
- Laura Rivera, an attorney at JFL

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BREAKING: Supreme Court allows Trump admin’s termination of TPS for Syria and Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of Haitian & Syrian community members likely will lose their ability to live and work legally in the United States in 32 days and may be subject to detention and deportation @irap.bsky.social

The Supreme Court lets the Trump administration end legal protections for Haitians and Syrians

The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to pot...

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ICE is amending federal standards relating to the treatment of detained immigrants. A private contractor asked ICE to include changes benefiting their business model & ICE agreed. These changes will make lives worse for people who are in ICE custody.

ICE removed detainee protections after private outreach from top contractor

In new federal standards released Monday, the agency appeared to make changes that could benefit Geo Group’s legal defense.

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Palantir's surveillance monopoly has expanded to Latin America Governments are handing over most critical data such as education logistics, health care, consumer habits & more. Palantir continues to bypass transparent bidding protocols. We need comprehensive digital privacy policy NOW.

Palantir Expands Its Influence Across Latin America - teleSUR English

Palantir Technologies is aggressively expanding its operations into Latin America. While the company, a Denver-based data analytics firm founded with early

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Keep in mind that just a week ago, Congress gave DHS $70 Billion. This money will not only fund "immigration enforcement," - it's designed for a larger authoritarian project that includes retaliation and intimidation.

Pope Leo is throwing shade at Peter Thiel and Elon Musk 🤣 Critics of AI-enabled surveillance technologies are being heard, so why is our government continuing to hand over billion$ towards something that damages + endangers us? Our government should invest in education, housing, childcare...

Pope Leo Schooled the Tech Bros on Tolkien

The Holy Father referenced “The Lord of the Rings” in his encyclical about AI—an expert (if unintentional) troll of tech billionaires who keep misinterpreting the series.

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Palantir has helped build the backbone of ICE's deportation machine. This is why JFL filed a lawsuit  seeking records related to ICE's use of Palantir's technology tools. Check out 404 media's coverage to learn how ICE uses Elite (linked to Palantir) to find which neighborhoods to raid.

Immigrant Rights Lawyers File Lawsuit Over Palantir’s ELITE

Just Futures Law is seeking a wealth of documents related to the tech Palantir provides to ICE.

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"The requested records include information of great national significance, and will detail the ways Defendants used Palantir tech to centralize, analyze, and visualize data around US residents & their social relationships to identify target individuals & communities.” - @justfutureslaw.bsky.social

Immigrant Rights Lawyers File Lawsuit Over Palantir’s ELITE

Just Futures Law is seeking a wealth of documents related to the tech Palantir provides to ICE.

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What does it mean to be "anti-American" or "bear hostile attitudes" to the US? USCIS is now vetting social media of immigrants (intending to come here or already here). We should be deeply about what this all means.

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In April, the Trump admin sent out federal contractors with explosives & heavy machinery to Mount Kuchamaa to construct a 2nd border wall. The mass deportation agenda of the Trump Administration creates so much damage to us all.

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For many of us, borders physically and symbolically represent colonial violence. Mount Kuchamaa is sacred to the Kumeyaay people, whose homeland spans San Diego County and northern Baja California.

LAPD deployed surveillance drones over 32 times over last months No Kings rally. Why is LAPD using surveillance technology against constitutionally protected activity? Oh right, to collect data and eventually use it to criminalize people, especially people of color, who are advocating for justice! 🙄

LAPD Deployed Drones to Spy on No Kings Protest

Flight records show that Los Angeles police dispatched drones 32 times over last month’s No Kings rally.

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"ICE has wasted no time spending its war chest, buying new tools ranging from biometric trackers to mobile phone location databases, spyware, and drones, while loosening restrictions on how it uses some of these technologies."

The powerful tools in ICE’s arsenal to track suspects — and protesters

Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies agents are using in their immigration enforcement campaign.

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