Immigration obstacles, US

Biden's new rules for asylum — which directly contradict US law — seem like they were inspired by the wrecker. People have noticed the hardship imposed by requiring each applicant to carry a snoop-phone that can run a special nonfree app. They have noticed the monetary hardship caused by the price of getting such a phone plus internet access. I have nothing to add to those valid points. But I do notice other injustices, which are common in the form of computing that the US demands of them.

Such a phone is full of unjust nonfree software, and the app is nonfree also. Any nonfree program is inherently an injustice to whoever runs it, and is likely to be malware. That app does facial recognition. I wonder what other malicious functionalities it implements.

I conjecture that there is no need at all for that facial recognition. If a migrant gets an appointment to meet with a human agent, the agent can check the migrant's identity against per papers then.

It would not be terribly hard for the US to set up kiosks in various parts of Mexico where people can do the required communication knowing that a kiosk has no ability to snoop on them through their own computers, or mess with them in any other way.