April Walker, a San Diego resident, was observing federal immigration agents in a Target parking lot in April when she said they boxed her in and pointed a camera at her face and license plate.
She said she never provided her driver’s license and the agents only moved their vehicles and allowed her to leave after she called 911. Five days later, she learned that her Global Entry, which provides expedited TSA screening, had been revoked. It was only reinstated, she said, after she contacted a reporter who then reached out to the Department of Homeland Security to inquire about the revocation.
Walker laid out her story in a federal lawsuit, filed Friday in the Southern District of California, alleging that agents working for Homeland Security deployed facial recognition technology and license plate information to surveil people observing and documenting federal immigration enforcement. Homeland Security then used that information to revoke Global Entry privileges in retaliation, the lawsuit alleges…