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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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José Olivares

Democrats accuse ICE of creating ‘disappearances’ on US soil

a man being arrested outside car by federal agents in uniform
A federal agent arrests a man in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in January. Photograph: Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images

A group of 36 lawmakers says the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has created “disappearances” on US soil, due to the “increasingly unreliable” online system used to track people detained by immigration authorities, according to a letter shared with the Guardian.

The lawmakers, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren, are urging that the DHS inspector general’s office open an investigation into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “online detainee locator system” (ODLS), which has been used for years by family members, attorneys and journalists to track people in the federal immigration detention system.

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