Immigration Watch International (2): Republicans Rip Biden Admin Use Of ICE Program That ‘Failed’ To Properly Monitor Illegal Immigrants

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Republicans Rip Biden Admin Use Of ICE Program That ‘Failed’ To Properly Monitor Illegal Immigrants

A group of House Republicans is asking federal authorities for answers on a program meant to monitor illegal immigrants throughout the U.S., arguing it has failed to properly track enrollees and has essentially become a “social services scheme.”

Republican Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, along with 15 other House Republicans, sent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Executive Associate Director Daniel Bible a list of questions on how the agency is managing the Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program in a Friday letter. The lawmakers asked for details on the number of available ICE detention beds, the rate of enrollees showing up to their removal proceedings and information on how these enrollees are supervised, among other questions:

“We write today to express our concerns about the implementation of the Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program. As you know, the ATD program was created in 2004 to monitor aliens on the non-detained docket (NDD) while they await the results of their pending immigration proceedings,” the lawmakers wrote. “However, today’s version of the ATD program has been expanded into a social services scheme, has failed to adequately monitor ATD enrollees, and has ultimately been an ineffective way to handle the unprecedented number of individuals on the [non-detained docket].”

The ATD program allows asylum seekers to move freely in the country in lieu of physical detention while they await their immigration court dates by using GPS monitoring, phone applications or other forms of tracking services to remain aware of their whereabouts.

The Republicans took particular umbrage with ICE’s management of the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP), the largest ATD program regarding enrolled immigrants and budget.

“For instance, we question whether it’s appropriate to let aliens roam the United States of America without consistently monitoring the specific movements of such individuals,” the letter read. “We also are concerned with the Case Management Pilot Program (CMPP) and the Young Adult Case Management Program (YACMP)—specifically how these methods have incentivized absconsion, diluted alien accountability, and transformed the ATD program into a social welfare system.”

The Republicans argued that U.S. tax dollars should not be paying for social services for non-citizens, but should instead be used for completing the border wall, maximizing the use of detention facilities and supporting federal immigration authorities, according to the letter.

“GPS monitoring significantly increases the likelihood that illegal aliens will comply with their immigration proceedings,” RJ Hauman, president of the National Immigration Center for Enforcement, told the DCNF. “Those enrolled under ISAP — the proper form of ATD — have a 98.6% compliance rate for attending immigration hearings and are easier to locate if they abscond.”

“Unfortunately, the Biden administration has failed to use the program efficiently or correctly, instead acting upon the wishes of ‘Abolish ICE’ groups who not only oppose custodial detention but call any monitoring of illegal immigrants a ‘digital prison,'” Hauman continued. “This explains why use of ISAP has decreased significantly, even as the non-detained docket approaches 7 million.”

Donalds also introduced the “Reshape Alternatives to Detention Act” on Thursday, which calls for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to utilize all detention space available for migrants arriving from the southern border and to maintain GPS monitoring of those migrants who are not being physically detained.

Mohammad Kharwin, an Afghan national who illegally entered the country, had been taken off the ISAP program almost immediately and allowed to roam free in the U.S. for nearly a year before being apprehended. The ATD program was also found to be more frequently using methods that were less adept at tracking enrollees.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/05/20/republicans-demand-answers-atd-program/s

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

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Immigration Watch International (2)

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Republicans Rip Biden Admin Use Of ICE Program That ‘Failed’ To Properly Monitor Illegal Immigrants

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