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The Immigration Enforcement Hydra Without a Kill Switch
Chinmayi Sharma explained that it could be tempting to use a “kill switch” to put an emergency stop to the large quantity of information running through automated immigration enforcement infrastructure. However, immigration enforcement’s interoperability—its ability to share data with different systems—makes it difficult to shut off on all fronts. Sharma recommended that subfederal actors procure more information about these connections, provide citizens with meaningful privacy rights, and use state constitutions to secure them.
Interoperability is not inherently unlawful or undesirable. A limited, documented request can resolve identity, prevent errors, and support ordinary public functions. The problem is a design that couples whole-population data flows to durable vendor integrations and supplies no reliable route to see and remove downstream copies. Resistance efforts should make the apparatus visible at the sites where public law can still reach it and dismantle the Hydra at the seams.
Technology, War, and the Limits of Innovation Power in the Middle East
David Goodstone and Eitan Danon described how Israel and Iran have applied innovation power in current wars in the Middle East, exploiting each other’s weaknesses. Israel used sophisticated, short-term tech in campaigns against Iran like Operation Rising Lion and Operation Roaring Lion, while Iran has utilized cheap and expendable systems. The authors noted that domestic factors sustain impasses in Israel, Gaza, and Iran, where politics matter in addition to military power.
Each country’s model of innovation power exploits the other’s weakness. Israel can destroy what Iran has built but cannot compel Iran to change course. Iran can make Israel pay but cannot protect the nuclear, security, and proxy architecture it has spent decades building.
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