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ORG's new report exposes the ‘near total secrecy’ of how AI being used across the UK immigration system. “We urgently need transparency, accountability and strict regulation to restrict how AI is used and to prevent its wider rollout”. 💬 @sarahalsherif@mas.to for ORG. Read about our findings ⤵️ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ai-use-home-office-asylum-border-uk-b3073323.html#ai #immigration #asylum #migrants #HostileEnvironment #AutomatedDiscrimination #ukpolitics #ukpol

ORG thanks Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP for supporting our new report into AI in UK immigration and border control. And for raising these issues in Parliament, which formed an important part of our investigation into AI in asylum decision-making. This is an opportunity “to break with the Home Office’s toxic record of failure”. Read more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-report-ai-being-embedded-across-immigration-system-in-near-total-secrecy/ #ai #immigration #asylum #HostileEnvironment #AutomatedDiscrimination #ukpolitics #ukpol

The UK Home Office may face a probe by a government watchdog 🚨 This comes following the findings in ORG's six-month investigation into the use of AI in asylum decision-making. We found errors and inaccuracies in the ChatGPT tools being used to summarise interviews and policy documents. Read more ⤵️ https://www.wired.com/story/uk-home-office-may-face-investigation-over-use-of-openai-tools/#ai #asylum #immigration #AutomatedDiscrimination #HostileEnvironment #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

NEW REPORT ⚡ AI has been embedded across the immigration system and at UK borders in near total secrecy. We expose how AI is shaped by and reinforces the hostile environment behind a smokescreen of 'national security'. We urgently need transparency, accountability and strict regulation. Read now ⤵️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-report-ai-being-embedded-across-immigration-system-in-near-total-secrecy/ #AutomatedDiscrimination #HostileEnvironment #ai #immigration #asylum #migrants #humanrights #ukpolitics #ukpol

NEW 📰 ORG's report reveals the sweeping use of AI across immigration and UK borders. Driving it is the idea that migration can be 'solved' by technology. But the biases and discrimination of anti-immigration policies are born again in code. This is the automated hostile environment. Read more ⤵️ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/oct/27/digital-hostile-environment-ai-secretly-embedded-home-office-report #ai #report #immigration #asylum #HomeOffice #AutomatedDiscrimination #HostileEnvironment #ukpolitics #ukpol

Our report shows how AI has become stitched into the UK Home Office. From detecting potential sham marriages and age estimation of asylum seekers to searching phones and producing summaries for asylum decisions. Plus border surveillance with live facial recognition, AI-powered drones and satellites. #ai #report #immigration #asylum #HomeOffice #AutomatedDiscrimination #HostileEnvironment #ukpolitics #ukpol

Millionaire Activist James Chambers Seeks Asylum in Spain https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/world/europe/spain-chambers-asylum-us-extradition.html #WorldNews #Politics #Asylum

Grannies sitting quietly holding placards: hundreds arrested on terrorism charges Gangs of masked men intimidating vulnerable people and obstructing a police operation: no-one arrested Can someone remind me what people were saying about #TwoTierPolicing? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyegwl9vzqo #UKPolitics #Asylum #FarageRiots

The Trump administration has undercut the U.S. asylum program. These 3 charts show how https://www.npr.org/2026/07/30/nx-s1-5891889/trump-asylum-program-changes-charts #Politics #News #Asylum

The use of AI in UK asylum decision-making is a disaster. AI hallucinated a document that led to an asylum application being denied. Applicants aren't being informed that opaque AI tools are being used in their case, nor being given the opportunity to correct errors churned out by these opaque tools. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/28/home-office-used-ai-hallucinated-information-to-refuse-asylum-claim-judge-suggests#ai #asylum #immigration #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

ORG's legal opinion shows that the Home Office's use of AI tools to summarise interviews and key documents in asylum decision-making is likely unlawful. The lack of transparency means that unlawful or unfair decisions may result from AI hallucinations and errors in rewriting critical information. Find out more ⬇️ #ai #asylum #immigration #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

Home Office used 'AI hallucinated' information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/28/home-office-used-ai-hallucinated-information-to-refuse-asylum-claim-judge-suggests #AI #Asylum #Politics

WTF??? #ICE arrests human rights lawyer who fled Chinese crackdown. He was in the midst of a perfectly legal #asylum claim. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/ice-arrests-human-rights-lawyer-wu-shaoping-fled-chinese-crackdown?CMP=share_btn_url #AbolishICE

‼️ Starting in March 2025, the #US #State Department arranged monthly meetings with Iranian officials, using the Pakistani embassy as an intermediary, in which US officials shared detailed, sensitive information about detained Iranian immigrants who the US government hoped to deport, lawyers for the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund & the Public Citizen Litigation Group wrote in a complaint. #law #immigration #Trump #Iran #HumanRights #asylum

The information included details about #asylum applications filed by people who say they were persecuted for converting to #Christianity, for their #sexuality or for participating in the #WomenLifeFreedom protests against the Iranian government in 2022, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in #US District Court in Washington, DC. #law #immigration #Trump #Iran #HumanRights #asylum #MahsaAmini

#ICE forced Iranian #asylum applicants who had been detained in numerous facilities, mostly southern states, to meet with an Iranian government official who had extensive & specific knowledge about their applications, according to the complaint. The information was shared even after the joint #US - #Israel strikes on #Iran started the #IranWar in February 2026. #law #immigration #Trump #HumanRights

The lawsuit is seeking to halt sharing information about #asylum seekers with the Iranian government & appoint an independent monitor to prevent future disclosures. “Despite the U.S.’s ongoing #war with #Iran, the administration seems more committed to mass #deportation than protecting human lives,” Michael Kirkpatrick, attorney at Public Citizen Litigation Group said in a statement. #law #immigration #Trump #HumanRights

The #US government is allowed to work with government officials of foreign countries to coordinate #deportation logistics. However, #federal #regulations passed in the late 1990s PROHIBIT the government from sharing information that could reveal that the individual getting deported applied for #asylum. #law #immigration #Trump #Iran #HumanRights

“Congress made these confidentiality protections mandatory precisely because lives depend on them, & no agency & no administration, of either party, may set them aside,” said Ali Rahnama, the interim executive director of Iranian American Legal Defense Fund. #law #immigration #Trump #Iran #HumanRights #asylum

A lawsuit filed Tues alleges the #Trump admin’s #immigration agencies have been sharing confidential information about Iranian #asylum seekers with the Iranian govt, violating national immigration regulations & endangering countless Iranians…. The lawsuit depicts a coordinated campaign between the US & Iranian govts to ID Iranians in #ICE custody & pressure them to return to #Iran — a marked departure from decades of hostility between the 2 govts & an ongoing #war. #law