The U.S. government has started requiring migrants without passports to submit to facial recognition technology to take domestic flights.
Get ready for April 8 by checking out our Total Solar Eclipse page, with everything you need to know for the big day!FILE - The Transportation Security Administration's new facial recognition technology is seen at a Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport security checkpoint, April 26, 2023, in Glen Burnie, Md.
If TSA cannot match their identity to DHS records, they will also be denied entry into the secure areas of the airport and will be denied boarding," the agency said. Groups that work with migrants said the change caught them off guard. Migrants wondered if they might lose hundreds of dollars spent on nonrefundable tickets. After group of migrants returned to a shelter in McAllen on Tuesday, saying they were turned away at the airport, advocates exchanged messages trying to figure out what the new TSA procedures were.
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