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BumRushDaShow

(171,638 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 11:15 AM Apr 24

DHS earmarks millions for 'smart glasses' for immigration agents

Source: msn/The Hill

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(NewsNation) — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will allocate $7.5 million next year to using emerging biometric technology to develop “smart glasses” designed to assist federal immigration agents and officers in identifying migrants who are in the United States illegally in real time, NewsNation has confirmed.

The project is part of President Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal, which earmarks millions toward developing what the White House considers critical technologies, analytic tools and data systems that strengthen DHS’s ability to “encounter, transport, detain and remove migrants who are in the United States illegally.”

The project is listed under the Research, Development and Innovation portion of the budget and calls for operational prototypes of smart glasses for agent use in the first quarter of 2027. Documents reviewed by NewsNation this week indicate that once in use, the smart glasses will equip federal immigration agents “with real-time access to information and biometric identification capabilities in the field.”

“These improvements will directly (allow) efficient and effective immigration enforcement, removal operations and fulfillment of executive orders and administrative priorities while ensuring public safety and operational excellence,” the budget plan outlines under a section for budgetary justification. A DHS spokesperson told NewsNation Wednesday that at this time, no federal funds have been committed for any form of “smart glasses.”

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dhs-earmarks-millions-for-smart-glasses-for-immigration-agents/ar-AA21BG8q



A DHS spokesperson told NewsNation Wednesday that at this time, no federal funds have been committed for any form of “smart glasses.”


TRANSLATION: Some were already purchased and are being deployed in pilot testing.
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DHS earmarks millions for 'smart glasses' for immigration agents (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Apr 24 OP
Time to get familiar with CV Dazzle Drum Apr 24 #1
I like this idea... 2naSalit Apr 24 #6
Silly string? littlemissmartypants Apr 24 #8
That... 2naSalit Apr 24 #9
Good for No Kings Day marches???? nt in2herbs Apr 24 #17
Masks and dark glasses should become common Sweet Rosie Red Apr 24 #2
Mirrored sunglasses... Nondescript clothing... Just spitballing but... littlemissmartypants Apr 24 #4
Kash Patel should be the first idiot to get a pair. littlemissmartypants Apr 24 #3
... Faux pas Apr 24 #5
Just another way for the oligarchs to steal our taxes. littlemissmartypants Apr 24 #7
MakeUp Tutorial HOW TO HIDE FROM CAMERAS littlemissmartypants Apr 24 #10
;-{) ICE...... Goonch Apr 24 #11
ICE must not be able to tell the color of people's skin sometimes.... Bayard Apr 24 #12
But the same goal Pesky1 Apr 24 #13
What happened to the $20 million on body worn cameras? EarthFirst Apr 24 #14
Fog wildflowergardener Apr 24 #15
Dystopian as fuck. LudwigPastorius Apr 24 #16
Smart glasses won't compensate for stupid people Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 24 #18
Masks, sunglasses, dazzle pattern make-up sakabatou Apr 24 #19
They'll probably all be too busy using them GenThePerservering Apr 24 #20

Drum

(10,748 posts)
1. Time to get familiar with CV Dazzle
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 11:28 AM
Apr 24

Google “computer vision dazzle” (anti recognition/identification makeup)

2naSalit

(103,792 posts)
6. I like this idea...
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 11:59 AM
Apr 24

Beats mine which is to carry around spraying devices that have some gooey stuff to coat the lenses of attackers.

This is way better.

Sweet Rosie Red

(124 posts)
2. Masks and dark glasses should become common
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 11:32 AM
Apr 24

for ICE activists at the end of the year. No one should be confident that this capability will be reserved for our immigrant brothers and sisters! Demonstrators who oppose the regime are committing thought crimes and the warehousesare waiting!

Epstein!

littlemissmartypants

(34,213 posts)
4. Mirrored sunglasses... Nondescript clothing... Just spitballing but...
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 11:44 AM
Apr 24

I believe mirrored sunglasses would be best with no data to back up the assumption.

littlemissmartypants

(34,213 posts)
7. Just another way for the oligarchs to steal our taxes.
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 12:04 PM
Apr 24

I went to the website. They look flimsy.

Why would anyone agree to spend so much money on an untested/unproven technology unless it is for no other reason than the transfer of assets from us plebs straight to the ruling class?

https://www.meta.com/ai-glasses/

littlemissmartypants

(34,213 posts)
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Fri Apr 24, 2026, 12:13 PM
Apr 24


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Bayard

(30,129 posts)
12. ICE must not be able to tell the color of people's skin sometimes....
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 12:14 PM
Apr 24

"Based on technological identification of certain classifications of people."

Pesky1

(79 posts)
13. But the same goal
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 12:18 PM
Apr 24

New equipment for the SS to use when rounding up Juden.

Oh wait, I'm sorry, wrong decade.

EarthFirst

(4,207 posts)
14. What happened to the $20 million on body worn cameras?
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 12:57 PM
Apr 24

Where is that equipment?

Who won that contract?

Fraud. Waste. Abuse.

LudwigPastorius

(14,927 posts)
16. Dystopian as fuck.
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 02:06 PM
Apr 24

This means all cops will be wearing these things eventually.

Hey, if you happen to look a little too much like somebody under suspicion (according to a machine), it's off to the camps for you.

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