NPR: Immigration briefing: Ukraine TPS extended; visa slow-walk claim; VT ICE protests

“SIMON: You said Williston’s home to two of these surveillance headquarters. Please tell us about the second.”

“ROMO: The second is just about a mile and a half away. It’s called the National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center. And the work going on here is of really great concern to privacy rights advocates who say that DHS is pulling information from commercial databases and social media. So everything from Google to Instagram, WhatsApp and even YouTube.”

“And based on a federal contract proposal, they allege that the Trump administration is now scouring the internet for what’s called sentiment analysis to create these profiles on people who might be expressing anti-ICE views. Here’s Kabbas Azhar, a lawyer with the Electronic Privacy Information Center.”

“KABBAS AZHAR: Of course, there’s a lot of issues with that. Speech is very ambiguous, very contextual. And oftentimes, this threat analysis that they’re doing can sweep in a lot of protected First Amendment activity.”

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