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US news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

ICE doubled its use of ankle monitors for legal immigrants in the past year: A very harmful phenomenon'

Ankle monitors for asylum seekers have increased significantly, impacting their lives and employment despite previous compliance with immigration authorities.
fromJezebel
3 months ago

Doctors Fear ICE's Unremovable Monitoring Devices Are Going to Harm Pregnant Women

One among said programs is Alternatives to Detention (ATD), which since 2004 has served as a "more humane" option for lower risk individuals facing removal from the United States, allowing those in the program to wait for their court date at home rather than being stuffed into a detention facility. The trade off, of course, is intense surveillance from ICE, through monitoring devices exclusively provided and operated by BI Inc.
US politics
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