
US paperless justice: How a spreadsheet became judge, jury, and executioner
The US government recently stripped thousands of international students of their legal status—not through courtroom deliberation or immigration hearings, but by relying on a spreadsheet. Behind closed doors, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) fed names from the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database into an administrative loop…