Comment by Robyn Barnard

At a time of increasingly lawless actions by ICE, we are grateful for Senator Markey taking concrete steps to implement accountability measures to protect our communities with the introduction of the 'ICE Out of Our Faces Act.' No government official should be able to hide behind masks while violating our fundamental rights with impunity. Our privacy and security, regardless of our race, nationality, or citizenship, should not be compromised by such dangerous anti-immigrant agendas, as we have seen acted out on the streets of Minneapolis. This bill inserts crucial guardrails for protecting our democracy and we urge Congress to act swiftly to pass this legislation,
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AI Verified Verified: the official Senate press release dated February 5, 2026 contains the quoted text verbatim (same wording, with only webpage line-break formatting differences) and attributes it to Robyn Barnard, identified there as Senior Director of Refugee Advocacy at Human Rights First. The same text also appears on Rep. Jayapal’s official House page. ([markey.senate.gov](https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/markey-merkley-wyden-jayapal-introduce-bill-to-ban-ice-and-cbp-use-of-facial-recognition-technology-amid-trumps-rapidly-growing-surveillance-state)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Verified. WebFetch of the markey.senate.gov press release returned HTTP 403, but web search confirmed this Feb 5, 2026 press release (Markey/Merkley/Wyden/Jayapal introducing the bill to ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition — the "ICE Out of Our Faces Act") contains the verbatim statement attributed to Robyn Barnard, Senior Director of Refugee Advocacy at Human Rights First: praising Senator Markey, "No government official should be able to hide behind masks while violating our fundamental rights with impunity," the Minneapolis reference, and "This bill inserts crucial guardrails for protecting our democracy and we urge Congress to act swiftly to pass this legislation." Correctly attributed. She clearly SUPPORTS banning facial-recognition/mass-surveillance use by ICE/CBP, so the "for" vote on "Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance" is correct. Year 2026, current and relevant. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 9d ago
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