USCIS Is Using Google Translate to Monitor Immigrants’ Social Media Pages

Dangerous’ or anti-American posts cannot be screened through translation services, which do not provide the full context

Alejandra Oliva
ZORA
Published in
6 min readOct 15, 2019

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Photo of a man holding  his mobile phone that says “We left Syria because of war and we want safety” on Google Translate.
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RRecently, ProPublica reported that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has been using Google Translate in order to screen…

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Alejandra Oliva
ZORA
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