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Sam Levigne is a performance artist. The context for this work is that ICE plans to increase its surveillance of immigrants, including surveillance of social media accounts. Sam argues that if this level of transparency is too invasive even for our public figures, then why do we demand this for prospective citizens?

After a public backlash, ICE recently suspended its Extreme Vetting Initiative, which would scan social media history and automatically flag people for deportation based on the exact criteria from the original Muslim ban. The Brennan Center discusses why this is bad: https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/ice-extreme-vetting-i...

ICE will still require five years of social media history: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/29/politics/immigrants-social-me...