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ICE expands ankle monitor program to nearly 54,000 immigrants as Geo Group profits from surveillance shift

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is now monitoring nearly 54,000 immigrants through GPS-enabled ankle monitors, a sharp increase from about 17,000 a year ago, as the agency shifts thousands of people from less restrictive forms of electronic supervision to continuous location tracking.

Latin Times · Aug 7

Amount of Asylum-Seekers in ICE's Alternative to Detention Program Dramatically Drops in South Texas

Number of asylum-seekers in the ATD program has dropped since last year, as the number of migrant apprehensions in the border continue to fall.

Latin Times · Dec 26, 2024

Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump's promised crackdown on immigration

President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration — among them, surveillance and artificial intelligence technology that the Biden administration already uses to help make crucial decisions in…

The Independent UK · Nov 26, 2024

Deportation Agents Use Smartphone App to Monitor Immigrants

US authorities have broadly expanded the use of a smartphone app during the coronavirus pandemic to ensure immigrants released from detention will attend deportation hearings, a requirement that advocates say violates their privacy and makes them feel they're not free. More than 125,000 people — many of them stopped at…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 10, 2022