Several sites are reporting, without reference to IBM's activities 70 years ago, that Microsoft's contact with ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is drawing fire online. The Computer Business Review includes a quote from Microsoft now missing from their press release:
"ICE's decision to accelerate IT modernization using Azure Government will help them innovate faster while reducing the burden of legacy IT. The agency is currently implementing transformative technologies for homeland security and public safety, and we're proud to support this work with our mission-critical cloud," he wrote.
KUOW radio writes on their web site that Microsoft is facing outrage their for blog post touting ICE contract:
As outrage grew online, a Microsoft employee quietly removed mention of ICE from the January press release this morning. Social media users noticed that, too. The company has since restored the press release's original language, and called its removal a "mistake."
After a little bit of conference swag gets handed out and a few advertising contracts^W^Wscholarships get handed out, this will all blow over and be forgotten.
(Score: 4, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday June 19 2018, @09:08PM (7 children)
It is certainly possible, but it requires changing the law to allow that to happen.
Show me the law liar.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by frojack on Tuesday June 19 2018, @09:30PM (4 children)
https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/training/xus/crcl/asylumseekers/crcl_asylum/pdfs/Immigration%20and%20Nationality%20Act%20101(a)(42).pdf [dhs.gov]
Immediate deportation is not possible if the illegal immigrant utters one word: Refugee. Also helps their case if the second word is Lawyer.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Aegis on Tuesday June 19 2018, @11:16PM (3 children)
LOL, "Refugee" is a term of art for a LEGAL immigrant! [uscis.gov]
Refugee status is a form of protection that may be granted to people who meet the definition of refugee and who are of special humanitarian concern to the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @11:21PM (2 children)
Right and the minute someone utters the word "refugee" they cannot be instantly deported, they must be detained until they've been processed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @12:07AM (1 child)
Oh the humanity! They force those poor ICE agents to do some actual police work? Say it ain't so!!!
Da fuck is wrong with you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @12:50AM
It's called sanity. Make a refugee claim at a legal crossing point, don't get arrested and children will not be separated. Get flagged as an illegal and get treated like an illegal. Any other policy encourages human trafficking - something ms13 are known for.
(Score: 0, Troll) by slinches on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:16PM (1 child)
U.S. Code § 1325.
It is illegal to cross the border anywhere but at a port of entry. The adults who cross illegally are detained immediately and criminally charged, making the minors with them legally "unaccompanied minors" and the law is followed for their processing separately from the parents.
Those that seek asylum at a port of entry with their children and who have not committed a crime are not separated and continue to stay together through the normal asylum process.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Hawkwind on Wednesday June 20 2018, @04:50AM
Not seeing the language your citing: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325 [cornell.edu]