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at's going on today. So according to Fox News, Biden's catch and release program for migrants, these are the ones who authorities are processing and then they're released without court dates, so more than fifteen thousand have been released into the wild. But here's my question. I'm not sure that releasing people after they've been processed in 2021 is exactly the same as it used to be, because you know there's one technology that's a little different now. I assume that part of the process of processing these folks involves taking a photograph. Is that fair to say? Does a photograph get into the government system every time we process somebody? I assume so.

Right now, once you have a photograph of somebody who is undocumented and we have facial recognition which is rolling out everywhere, is the ability to just blend into the economy and disappear without being a legal citizen, I don't know if that exists anymore. I feel as if our electronic, let's say, requirements of life now will follow you. I mean if they take your picture you're effectively tagged. It's just like tagging an animal and releasing it, because anywhere there's a camera you can find them. So I would imagine that although we don't have all the assets in place to immediately track every citizen everywhere, you know it's coming. So I'm not so sure that it matters as much as it used to if you release people into the country now. I know you don't like it. I just, I'm just saying that compared

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to the risk of the past, the technology might be coming to its own. And maybe you don't like that either because of privacy, etc. But just stating it as a fact, facial recognition is going to make it really hard to disappear, right? So immigration and facial technology are gonna bump into each other and that's gonna be a big story coming up. The New York Times is reporting that the death rate fo…

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