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CBP provides facial-recognition mobile app for state/local law enforcement

  1. Original Date Announced

    November 4, 2025

    404 Media reports that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has launched a new mobile-phone application called Mobile Identify to be used by state or local law-enforcement agents performing immigration-enforcement duties through 287(g) agreements. Through the application, agents can scan people's faces by pointing their phone camera at them. After a face is scanned, the application tells agents either to contact ICE to detain the person or let the person go.

    Ars Technica reports that the application was made available in the Google Play store on October 30, 2025, but is not yet available in the iPhone's app store.

    Trump 2.0 [ID #2057]

    2025.11.04 Reported: US gives local police a face-scanning app similar to one used by ICE agents - Ars Technica 2025.11.04 Reported: DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants - 404 Media
  2. Effective Date

    October 30, 2025
  3. Subsequent Trump and Court Action

    December 5, 2025

    2025.12.5 Reported: DHS’s Immigrant-Hunting App Removed from Google Play Store - 404 Media

    404 Media reports that CBP's Mobile Identify application has been removed from the Google Play Store. Google says it did not remove the app and it directed inquiries to the developer.

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Current Status

None

Original Trump Policy Status

Status: Reported
Trump Administration Action: Change in Practice
Subject Matter: Interior Enforcement
Agencies Affected: DHS CBP ICE

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