This Is What It Looks Like When the President Asks People to Snitch on Their Neighbors

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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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
>
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> 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
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>      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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