{"id":287,"date":"2020-08-11T21:06:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T01:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/?page_id=287"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:17","slug":"weapons-of-mass-deportation-big-data-and-automated-decision-making-systems-in-immigration-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/in-print\/volume-34-number-3-spring-2020\/weapons-of-mass-deportation-big-data-and-automated-decision-making-systems-in-immigration-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Weapons of Mass Deportation: Big Data and Automated Decision-Making Systems in Immigration Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>The world is run by data. Predictive analytics and machine learning are\u00a0constantly feeding from people\u2019s data to predict behaviors. Big Tech propelled the \u201cBig Data\u201d revolution after discovering that data translates into\u00a0revenue. Netflix predicts what movies you will like, Facebook helps businesses predict what kinds of ads you are likely to click on, and insurance\u00a0companies predict whether you will be in an accident or become sick. But\u00a0what happens when the government uses your data to predict that you are going to commit a crime, or to track you and deport you if you are undocumented?\u00a0What used to be the arms race among nations has now turned into the technology race. President Putin professed that the nation that obtains leadership\u00a0in artificial intelligence (AI) will rule the world. After China announced that\u00a0it wants to become the global leader in AI research by 2030, the United\u00a0States took strong stands on AI development through the \u201cExecutive Order\u00a0on AI\u201d signed by President Trump in February 2019. The Research and\u00a0Development Strategic Plan that followed the executive order calls for the\u00a0\u201c[d]eveloping of AI systems that complement and augment human capabilities. . .\u201d as well as the \u201c[d]eveloping and making accessible a wide variety of datasets to meet the needs\u201d of different applications. The United States widely uses computer-human collaboration systems within the criminal justice system under the name of Automated Decision-Making Systems (ADM Systems). In the immigration context, the use of these systems is limited. Does the Executive Order on AI call for the expansion of these systems to other governmental functions in immigration enforcement?<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/immigration-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2020\/08\/Weapons-of-Mass-Deportation-Big-Data-and-Automated-Decision-Making-Systems-in-Immigration-Law.pdf\">Weapons of Mass Deportation: Big Data and Automated Decision-Making Systems in Immigration Law<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is run by data. Predictive analytics and machine learning are\u00a0constantly feeding from people\u2019s data to predict behaviors. 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