The program enrolled about 1,000 people a day
ICE says using SmartLINK and other alternatives to detention "effectively increases court appearance rates compliance with release conditions." Officers determine what level of supervision is required and what technology will be usedWhen migrants like Joel who are selected for the program are released from custody, ICE says some are loaned devices loaded with SmartLINK installed, unless they have their own smartphones.
But the phones, he says, are raising many concerns. Some migrants, he says, have reported difficulties with charging and powering on the devices. asking a judge to order ICE to release more information about how data obtained through SmartLINK is tracked, used and shared. The suit decries "constant, invasive surveillance" and says the program takes a major toll on the immigrants enrolled in it.
Meanwhile, she says, the program is needlessly causing emotional harm to tens of thousands of people. Some people enrolled in the program, she says, are told their case manager may call them at any point on a given day, making them scared to leave home. "When you start handing out cell phones and say, 'We'll buzz you when we need to get in touch with you,' and then they let them go on their merry way into the interior of the United States, that's just going to encourage more and more people to come," says Chris Chmielenski, deputy director of NumbersUSA, an organization that advocates for less immigration.
Good idea. They should all wear ankle bracelets.
Why would anyone bother with a device that offers no connection?
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These phones are tracking devices. Do they tell those people the phones are useless. Are the people aware they serve them no purpose for anything but tracking them.