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Right, Microsoft is influencing policy at ICE by refusing to provide them facial recognition software, which prevents them from having facial recognition software.

In general, if the idea is that a tool makes you more efficient/effective, denying that tool does the opposite. Making ICE less effective seems laudable, so why not throw roadblocks, even small ones, in the way?

>>joshua+(OP)
Because ICE as an organization isn't purely bad, nor is it purely good. As it is made up of people, there are good and bad. ICE also fights sex trafficking, which to me is akin to modern day slavery. I want ICE to have every tool at their disposal to fight sex trafficking.

If we stop ICE from using these tools, are you saying that sex trafficking victims are less worthy of help than detained immigrants? How do you draw that line?

>>salmon+M4
>which to me is akin to modern day slavery

There's 3 times more slaves today than during the period of the transatlantic slave trade. Estimated to be 40m people, 10m of which are children, mainly in Africa and Asia.[0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-...

>>salmon+M4
No, but there are other organizations that I can donate time, money, and resources to to combat human trafficking. So any negative impact by defunding ICE's human trafficking response can be offset.

> I want ICE to have every tool at their disposal to fight sex trafficking.

I want a different organization to fight sex trafficking. If it's an important enough issue, it can be split from the organization that imprisons children, which is....not too far from what you're lauding ICE from preventing.