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Asylum seekers in the United States are being encouraged to submit biographic and biometric information to the CBP One app to allow border patrol officials to verify their identity.
More Coverage The DHS has signaled that its authority to use the app in this way may be tenuous, and some privacy risks remain unresolved, according to the privacy assessments, which are required by law. In early May, CBP sought and received “emergency” approval from the Office of Management and Budget to use the app to collect advance information on undocumented individuals, bypassing the public comment and notification process that’s required before launching new programs. When asked about the app, the White House directed The Times to the Homeland Security Department, which declin...
What Is Climate Justice? A Framework for Understanding the World Jacqui Germain s 2021 As her five-year-old poodle-sheepdog mix, Lira, pops in and out of the Zoom frame, Rhiana Gunn-Wright tells Teen Vogue what it’s been like to see the Green New Deal evolve. She is one of the primary authors of the sweeping policy proposal, which she started working on in the fall of 2018. “I had no idea it was going to turn into what it did. And it’s always amazing to hear folks — especially folks in Gen Z — talk about it giving them hope,” says Gunn-Wright, climate policy direc...
Independent observers said the actual toll is likely much higher. The US military killed at least 23 civilians in 2020, according to a new report from the Department of Defense, a steep decline from previous years as offensive operations were significantly reduced during the pandemic. Another 10 civilians were likely injured, the department said. In 2017, by contrast, the US military said it had killed nearly 500 civilians. But independent observers said the actual number of civilian casualties is once again likely far higher than the US is willing to admit. The monitoring group Airwars, for...
Human rights defenders on Wednesday accused the Biden administration of joining its predecessors in undercounting the number of civilians killed during U.S. wars, as the latest annual Pentagon report on noncombatants killed by American bombs and bullets was blasted as "grossly inadequate" by a leadi...