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MediaFaro News Digest

Biometric border control: Germany to launch the entry/exit system in October.

After a delay, the European entry/exit system for border management is now to be launched in Düsseldorf. Frankfurt and Munich are to follow.

mediafaro.org/article/20250913

A stock image of a woman's face with a biometric pattern on top of it. | Image: Fractal Pictures/Shutterstock.com
Heise Online · Biometric border control: Germany to launch the entry/exit system in October.By Stefan Krempl
#Germany#Borders#Biometric
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

As expected, #Poland has filed a new 180 day notification with the @EUCommission on the "temporary" reintroduction of border controls with Germany and Lithuania. That's entry 475 in the list.

I have updated my CSV file and released a new DOI at zenodo.org/records/17068706

All curated source data at codeberg.org/jwildeboer/Scheng

Manually extracted from the unparsable PDF file at home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/poli

ZenodoMember States' notifications of the temporary reintroduction of border control at internal borders pursuant to Article 25 and 28 et seq. of the Schengen Borders CodeBased on data published at https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen/schengen-area/temporary-reintroduction-border-control_en and the PDF at https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen/schengen-area/temporary-reintroduction-border-control_en (Full list of Member States' notifications of the temporary reintroduction of border control at internal borders pursuant to Article 25 et seq. of the Schengen Borders Code) from 2025-09-o6 Changes to previous version: Added entry 475 (Poland)  
#Schengen#EU#BorderControl
Bytes Europe

Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, And Sweden Strengthen Border Security With Extended Schengen Controls And Stricter Travel Rules Through 2025 byteseu.com/1262200/ #AustriaTravelNews #BorderControl #DenmarkTravelNews #FranceTravelNews #GermanyTravelNews #ItalyTravelNews #NetherlandsTravelNews #NorwayTravelNews #PolandTravelNews #Schengen #SloveniaTravelNews #Sweden #SwedenTravelNews #TravelNews #VisaRegulations

Miguel Afonso Caetano

"One of the ICE applicants I spoke with seemed to have an insatiable desire for conflict in line with this hypothesis. All his life, he said, he had hoped to fight wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. He’d joined the army hoping to fulfill this desire. But our foreign wars had wound down by the time of his enlistment, and he never got a chance to fight abroad.

He said his wife had almost been assaulted in Texas, and when she’d called the police they arrested a man who turned out to be an “illegal alien” and who was promptly deported. He said he’d seen videos of a member of the Taliban getting into an argument at a fast-food restaurant in California (I couldn’t find any evidence of this—not even as a conspiracy), and that he wanted to join ICE to protect his family.

“I learned all these skills in the army—smash and grabs, site exploitation—and never got to use them,” he said. “So I’m here to kind of do what I learned to do over there, but this time here, defending my country.”

Previously impressed by the connections between war and domestic policy elucidated by the historians Kathleen Belew and Stuart Schrader, I found this man’s account almost embarrassingly transparent. This was the most straightforward articulation I’d ever heard of someone bringing the war home."

nplusonemag.com/online-only/on

n+1 · Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis VaroufuckiceThis is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have done to the world. Furthermore, it isn’t hard to bring politeness and evil into view at the same time.
#USA#Trump#ICE
Earthworm 🐌

I want to puke.

FRONTEX* has published propaganda material about deportations. For kids. Happy families get deported by happy police officers. And there are nice activities included, like drawing your friends and family.

🤯

op.europa.eu/en/publication-de

This orwellian piece is available in several languages (FR, DE, PT, ES, EN):

* Europe's border police force, responsible for thousands of deaths and human rights violations

@yun_patata (Danke fürs posten!)

#Frontex#FortressEurope#EuropeanComission
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from, according to internal CBP documents obtained by 404 Media. The data includes passenger names, their full flight itineraries, and financial details.

CBP, a part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), says it needs this data to support state and local police to track people of interest’s air travel across the country, in a purchase that has alarmed civil liberties experts.

The documents reveal for the first time in detail why at least one part of DHS purchased such information, and comes after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detailed its own purchase of the data. The documents also show for the first time that the data broker, called the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), tells government agencies not to mention where it sourced the flight data from.

“The big airlines—through a shady data broker that they own called ARC—are selling the government bulk access to Americans' sensitive information, revealing where they fly and the credit card they used,” Senator Ron Wyden said in a statement."

wired.com/story/airlines-dont-

WIRED · Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHSBy Joseph Cox
#USA#BorderControl#PoliceState
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The United States government has collected DNA samples from upwards of 133,000 migrant children and teenagers—including at least one 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic data into a national criminal database used by local, state, and federal law enforcement, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

The records, quietly released by the US Customs and Border Protection earlier this year, offer the most detailed look to date at the scale of CBP’s controversial DNA collection program. They reveal for the first time just how deeply the government’s biometric surveillance reaches into the lives of migrant children, some of whom may still be learning to read or tie their shoes—yet whose DNA is now stored in a system originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals.

WIRED has made this article free for all to read because it is based on reporting from Freedom of Information Act requests or public government documents. Please consider subscribing to support our journalism.

The Department of Justice has argued that extensive DNA collection activity at the border provides “an assessment of the danger” a migrant potentially “poses to the public” and will essentially help solve crimes that may be committed in the future. Experts say that the children’s raw genetic material will be stored indefinitely and worry that, without proper guardrails, the DNA dragnet could eventually be used for more extensive profiling.

Spanning from October 2020 through the end of 2024, the records show that CBP swabbed the cheeks of between 829,000 and 2.8 million people, with experts estimating that the true figure, excluding duplicates, is likely well over 1.5 million. That number includes as many as 133,539 children and teenagers. These figures mark a sweeping expansion of biometric surveillance—one that explicitly targets migrant populations, including children."

wired.com/story/cbp-dna-migran
#USA #Trump #DNA #Surveillance #DNA #Immigration #PoliceState #BorderControl

WIRED · The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal DatabaseBy Dhruv Mehrotra
MediaFaro News Digest

Lithuania takes Belarus to the International Court of Justice over a migration crisis.

Lithuania has filed a case against Belarus at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, accusing the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko of deliberately orchestrating a migrant crisis in violation of international law, the Foreign Ministry announced Monday.

mediafaro.org/article/20250519

LRT · Lithuania takes Belarus to the International Court of Justice over a migration crisis.By Jūratė Skėrytė
#Lithuania#Belarus#InternationalCourtOfJustice
MediaFaro News Digest

Brits will soon be allowed to use e-gates at more EU airports.

British travellers will soon be able to use e-gates at more EU airports, after negotiations between the UK government and the EU to finalise a ‘post-Brexit reset deal’.

It means UK passport holders will no longer have to wait at manned desks and instead be allowed to use fast-track e-gates usually reserved for EU or European Economic Area citizens.

mediafaro.org/article/20250519

Euronews · Brits will soon be allowed to use e-gates at more EU airports.By Rebecca Ann Hughes
#UK#EU#Passport
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