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The Department of Homeland Security has a scary vision for expanding face recognition surveillance into our everyday lives, threatening a dystopian future in which the technology is used throughout our public spaces to scrutinize our identity, check us against watchlists, record our movements, and more. Work on building the infrastructure for this pervasive monitoring has already started, with U.S. Customs and Border Protection currently operating a face recognition system at the gates of departing international flights.  

Jennifer Stisa Granick, Surveillance and Cybersecurity Counsel, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project The

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America made big strides in 2019 on its path to dismantle the racist, unfair, and inhumane death penalty. Today, dramatically fewer states permit the death penalty than any time in the modern era, and the number of people on death row is at a 27-year low.

Shaw Drake, He/Him/His, Staff Attorney and Policy Counsel, Border and Immigrants’ Rights, ACLU of Texas “L

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The problems with the death penalty are so deep they cannot be fixed. With every execution we carry out, we violate our Constitution’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

Behind the racist rhetoric and policies from the Trump administration is the harmful message that people of color, people who speak a second language, and people who come from immigrant families are not equals in our country or are somehow less American. This is wrong and we're fighting back.