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This Is What It Looks Like When the President Asks People to Snitch on Their Neighbors
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 15:36:02 -0400
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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: October 3, 2017 at 3:28:11 PM EDT To: nnsquad () nnsquad org Subject: [ NNSquad ] This Is What It Looks Like When the President Asks People to Snitch on Their Neighbors This Is What It Looks Like When the President Asks People to Snitch on Their Neighbors https://splinternews.com/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-the-president-asks-peop-1819077393 In April, the Trump Administration launched what it called the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) hotline, with a stated mission to "provide proactive, timely, adequate, and professional services to victims of crimes committed by removable aliens." But internal logs of calls to VOICE obtained by Splinter show that hundreds of Americans seized on the hotline to lodge secret accusations against acquaintances, neighbors, or even their own family members, often to advance petty personal grievances. The logs--hundreds of which were available for download on the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement web site despite containing extremely sensitive personal information--call to mind the efforts of closed societies like East Germany or Cuba to cultivate vast networks of informants and an atmosphere of fear and suspicion.
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