and the airports will all be tools that could be enhanced with AI to pursue deportation. “These technologies could be changed and altered and have different guardrails in a different administration. The concern about mass deportations is the enhanced use of AI by immigration enforcement and to superpower the ability to monitor public data, MacCleery said. It is inevitable, she said, that AI will sweep up U.S. citizens. “Because there are U.S. citizens that live with people of different immigration status and those people will get swept up and the due process rights of people who are here legally could be violated and that is super problematic and an inevitable consequence of the overuse of these kinds of technologies,” MacCleery said. But Marina Shepelsky, CEO, co-