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The Government launches a pilot plan to monitor undocumented immigrants without locking them up in ICE detention centers

2022-02-08T19:28:14.755Z


Immigration authorities put in place a system of confinement at home and curfews that adds to the anklets and other GPS devices to track their location.


In the coming weeks, the Department of Homeland Security will launch a new pilot program in Houston (Texas) and Baltimore (Maryland) to monitor undocumented immigrants waiting for their court date without having to place them in a Service detention center. of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE, for its acronym in English), according to the information website Axios.

The new program plans to impose home confinement and curfews to keep undocumented people in check.

Initially it will affect only about 200 immigrants, but it is expected to be extended to the rest of the country at the end of this year.

Currently there are almost 180,000 immigrants who are already being controlled with

anklets and other GPS tracking devices,

after the government presided over by Joe Biden stopped detaining migrant families in ICE centers and promoted new means of tracking the rest of the undocumented .

[They present a migration plan so that the undocumented can achieve residency in 10 years by paying $10,000]

The Department of Homeland Security is also turning more frequently to other means of tracking, such as

bracelets or traceable phones

, for asylum seekers who cross the border and are released by appointment to appear in immigration court.

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“Alternatives to detention [programs] are an effective method of tracking non-citizens released from Border Patrol custody who are awaiting their immigration proceedings,” a spokesperson told Axios.

Immigrants now wait an average of nearly three years for their cases to be heard in court, according to data from Syracuse University.

Although the Administration has ended the detention of migrant families, it continues to return thousands at the border under the policy known as

Title 42

that former President Donald Trump launched in 2020 as a preventive measure against the pandemic.

It has also re-implemented the program

Stay in Mexico, which forces asylum seekers to stay in the neighboring country while their cases are resolved in the United States.

Border authorities made 1.9 million apprehensions along the border with Mexico in 2021. Most of the immigrants were expelled to the neighboring country or to their countries of origin under Title 42.

About 20% of detained immigrants were released pending hearings on their asylum claims, down from 56% before the pandemic, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Source: telemundo

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