Biden's new
rules for asylum
— which directly contradict US law — seem
like they were inspired by the wrecker.
People have noticed the hardship imposed by requiring each applicant
to carry a snoop-phone that can run a special nonfree app. They have
noticed the monetary hardship caused by the price of getting such a
phone plus internet access. I have nothing to add to those valid
points. But I do notice other injustices, which are common in the form
of computing that the US demands of them.
Such a phone is full of unjust nonfree software, and the app is
nonfree also. Any nonfree program is inherently an injustice to
whoever runs it, and is likely to be malware. That app does facial
recognition. I wonder what other malicious functionalities it
implements.
I conjecture that there is no need at all for that facial recognition.
If a migrant gets an appointment to meet with a human agent, the agent
can check the migrant's identity against per
papers then.
It would not be terribly hard for the US to set up kiosks in various
parts of Mexico where people can do the required communication knowing
that a kiosk has no ability to snoop on them through their own
computers, or mess with them in any other way.