Hacker News with Generative AI: Immigration

Trump Administration Reverses Course on Student Visa Cancellations (nytimes.com)
The Trump administration on Friday abruptly walked back its cancellation of more than 1,500 student visas held by international students, announcing a dramatic shift by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a court hearing in Washington.
Politics, Immigration, Education, Law
15 points by whack 9 hours ago | 3 comments
DOGE is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say (lite.cnn.com)
Staffers from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are building a master database to speed-up immigration enforcement and deportations by combining sensitive data from across the federal government, multiple sources familiar with the plans tell CNN.
Immigration, Government, Data, Privacy, Technology
23 points by f38zf5vdt 10 hours ago | 8 comments
An OpenAI researcher who worked on GPT-4.5 had their green card denied (techcrunch.com)
Kai Chen, a Canadian AI researcher working at OpenAI who’s lived in the U.S. for 12 years, was denied a green card, according to Noam Brown, a leading research scientist at the company.
Immigration, AI Research, OpenAI, Green Card
11 points by ydnyshhh 10 hours ago | 1 comments
FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities (apnews.com)
ICE is reversing termination of legal status for international students around US, lawyer says
Law, Immigration, Government, Justice
931 points by eterps 13 hours ago | 855 comments
Wife of wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia doxxed by government (independent.co.uk)
The wife of a wrongly deported Salvadoran father living in Maryland was moved to a safe house after Donald Trump’s administration posted a court document that included her address on social media.
Immigration, Government, Privacy, Social Media
24 points by ColinWright 2 days ago | 2 comments
Choose Europe Macron invites scientists to work in France amid US funding cuts (france24.com)
French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday invited international scientists to work in France or elsewhere in Europe.
Science, Europe, France, Politics, Immigration
9 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Are you finding it harder to enter the US in the last couple of months? (ycombinator.com)
I have a decent job offer in the USA which I am quite hesitant to take. I am a Canadian citizen but was born in Iran and seems like it's not going to go well at the border.
Immigration, United States, Employment, Canada
26 points by kwar13 3 days ago | 18 comments
The Tent Company Profiting from Trump's Deportation Plans (propublica.org)
In June 2005, a former employee from the Federal Emergency Management Agency toured the grounds of the Bonnaroo music festival in rural Tennessee.
Politics, Immigration, Business, Journalism
13 points by noleary 3 days ago | 0 comments
Mexico bans 'foreign propaganda' after US anti-migrant ad (semafor.com)
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said foreign “propaganda” would be banned after US anti-migrant ads ran on national TV.
Mexico, Politics, Immigration, Advertising, International Relations
19 points by geox 3 days ago | 1 comments
An AI doctoral candidate in California says they had their student visa revoked (techcrunch.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Immigration, Education, California
7 points by nashashmi 4 days ago | 0 comments
ICE enlists Palantir to develop all-seeing 'ImmigrationOS' to speed deportations (theregister.com)
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has an urgent need for a new software system to help implement the Trump administration's deportation plans, and it's turning to longtime ICE supplier Palantir for a rush build job.
Immigration, Government, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Politics
20 points by LinuxBender 4 days ago | 2 comments
An AI doctoral candidate in California says they had their student visa revoked (techcrunch.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Immigration, Education
12 points by spenvo 4 days ago | 1 comments
Palantir exec defends company's immigration surveillance work (techcrunch.com)
One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend of the controversial data analytics company Palantir, leading a company executive to offer an extensive defense of Palantir’s work.
Data Analytics, Surveillance, Immigration, Business
10 points by breadwinner 5 days ago | 3 comments
Supreme Court Issues Unusual Order in Alien Enemies Act Deportation Case (reason.com)
Last night, the Supreme Court issued a very unusual order in an Alien Enemies Act deportation case.
Law, Supreme Court, Deportation, Immigration
24 points by MaysonL 6 days ago | 3 comments
Doge Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants (wired.com)
Operatives from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are building a master database at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that could track and surveil undocumented immigrants, two sources with direct knowledge tell WIRED.
Privacy, Immigration, Surveillance, Government, Technology
18 points by throw0101d 7 days ago | 4 comments
Anxiety at US colleges as foreign students are detained and visas revoked (bbc.com)
For the last few weeks, many foreign students living in the US have watched as a sequence of events has repeated itself on their social media feeds: plain-clothes agents appearing unannounced and hauling students off in unmarked cars to detention centres.
International Students, Immigration, United States, Education
91 points by intunderflow 7 days ago | 8 comments
ICE Is Paying Palantir $30M to Build 'ImmigrationOS' Surveillance Platform (wired.com)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is paying software company Palantir $30 million to provide the agency with “near real-time visibility” on people self-deporting from the United States, according to a contract justification published in a federal register on Thursday.
Immigration, Surveillance, Government Contracts, Technology
33 points by yurivish 7 days ago | 2 comments
The best $6,160 I ever spent: a US work visa (2019) (vox.com)
It’s one thing to feel like a fraud when you tell people what you do for a living. It’s another thing to pay $6,160 to ask the United States government to judge if you’re a genius at it.
Immigration, Work Visas, Personal Finance, United States
4 points by mooreds 8 days ago | 0 comments
Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics 'scientific asylum' (theguardian.com)
Nearly 300 academics have applied to a French university’s offer to take in US-based researchers rattled by the American government’s crackdown on academia, as a former French president called for the creation of a “scientific refugee” status for academics in peril.
Academia, Immigration, Politics, France, United States
18 points by mraniki 8 days ago | 0 comments
U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia (nbcnews.com)
A U.S.-born American citizen was being detained at the request of immigration authorities Thursday despite an advocate showing his U.S. birth certificate in court and a county judge finding no reason for him to be considered an “illegal alien” who illegally entered Florida.
Immigration, Law, Florida, Georgia, United States
57 points by shitter 8 days ago | 25 comments
FCC chief targets Comcast-owned outlets over 'news distortion' (thehill.com)
The Federal Communications Commission chief blasted news outlets owned by Comcast over their coverage of a case involving a mistakenly deported Salvadoran immigrant who the Trump administration contends is a gang member.
Politics, Media, Immigration, Law Enforcement
15 points by nickthegreek 8 days ago | 5 comments
ICE-snitching app is promoting a meme coin (theverge.com)
Right-wing influencers are shilling an app that purportedly lets people earn crypto for reporting sightings of undocumented immigrants.
Cryptocurrency, Social Media, Immigration, Meme Coins
8 points by sksxihve 9 days ago | 0 comments
US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban (bbc.com)
The US government has threatened to ban Harvard University from enrolling foreign students - after the institution said it would not bow to demands from President Donald Trump's administration and was hit with a funding freeze.
Politics, Education, Immigration
377 points by intunderflow 9 days ago | 424 comments
ICE-snitching app is promoting a meme coin (theverge.com)
Right-wing influencers are shilling an app that purportedly lets people earn crypto for reporting sightings of undocumented immigrants.
Cryptocurrency, Social Media, Immigration
20 points by nickcotter 9 days ago | 1 comments
Musk's Team Is Building a System to Sell 'Gold Card' Immigrant Visas (nytimes.com)
Members of Elon Musk’s government-slashing task force are building a system for the United States to sell special immigration visas, which President Trump has labeled “gold cards,” for $5 million apiece.
Immigration, Politics, United States, Business
22 points by JumpCrisscross 9 days ago | 13 comments
'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad (text.npr.org)
President Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador.
Politics, Immigration, Law Enforcement, Human Rights, United States
38 points by thowaway7564902 9 days ago | 4 comments
USCIS to Screen Immigrants' Social Media for Antisemitism (uscis.gov)
WASHINGTON— Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests.
Immigration, Antisemitism, Social Media, Government Policy
17 points by andrewstetsenko 9 days ago | 2 comments
ICE-snitching app is promoting a meme coin (theverge.com)
Right-wing influencers are shilling an app that purportedly lets people earn crypto for reporting sightings of undocumented immigrants.
Cryptocurrency, Social Media, Immigration, Right-Wing Politics
17 points by coloneltcb 9 days ago | 0 comments
Jdge fnds cause to hld Trump admnstratn in crmnal cntempt over deprtation flghts (nbcnews.com)
A federal judge said in an order Wednesday that he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt over deportation flights that it sent to El Salvador.
Politics, Law, Immigration
46 points by alamortsubite 9 days ago | 42 comments
ICE Hands Palantir Millions for Comprehensive Analysis of Known Groups (404media.co)
Last week Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) paid contracting giant Palantir tens of millions of dollars to make modifications to a powerful ICE database and search tool to allow “complete target analysis of known populations” and to update the tool’s targeting and enforcement priorities, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.
Government Contracts, Surveillance, Immigration, Data Analysis
19 points by bentobean 10 days ago | 4 comments