By Caroline Haskins
Publication Date: 2026-03-03 11:30:00
ICE has also purchased at least one “customized” training session for staff on using Microsoft Teams. Details on FPDS revealed that the training would be focused on developing “documents” for the management office of the 287(g) program, which deputizes enrolled state and local agencies to work with ICE. “Automated documents” are also mentioned, but nothing on FPDS reveals exactly what those may be, or what role they play in the 287(g) program.
Christopher Muhawe, an assistant professor of law at the University of Illinois Chicago—who has studied the psychological effects the American immigration surveillance infrastructure—argues that people seeking asylum or refugee status in the US, including the “security and survival” it could provide, are “inherently vulnerable” to the federal immigration surveillance state, and can cause anxiety and “advanced harm to someone’s health.”
“There are no adequate protections to these individuals,” Muhawe says.
Microsoft did not…
