What tech is Trump using to ramp up deportations?

From surveillance towers to facial recognition, the United States is relying heavily on advanced technologies to monitor and deport immigrants.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and other fast-developing innovations are proving to be powerful enforcement tools in the hard-line immigration campaign launched by President Donald Trump.

Many of these systems were implemented under previous administrations, including that of former Democratic President Joe Biden, but their growing use is raising privacy and due process objections from advocacy groups like the American Civil Liberties Union.

Below is a list of technologies the U.S. is using to escalate its immigration enforcement.

CBP Home phone app

In March, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released a new version of CBP Home, an app for users to navigate the agency's approval processes. The app has a new "self-deport" feature for undocumented immigrants to tell the government they are voluntarily leaving the country. To self-deport, undocumented immigrants provide photos, their intended country of destination and confirmation they have enough money to depart.

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