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The Biden administration has cut detentions of illegal immigrants despite the historic surge across the border, and it is relying more on ankle bracelets to monitor migrants despite reports they don’t work.
Syracuse University’s Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse, which charts federal immigration statistics, said that just 20,623 illegal immigrants are being detained, down from 22,000, raising questions from critics about where thousands of other border-crossers are.
An Arizona Sun Times report quoted the mayor of Yuma saying that just 1% of those nabbed by border agents are being deported.
The university said that a record number have been placed in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s “alternatives to detention” program, which uses ankle bracelets to track movement.
“The number of immigrants enrolled in ICE’s ‘Alternatives to Detention' (ATD) program, which monitors immigrants through a variety of technologies outside of detention, exceeded 150,000 for the first time in December,” said the TRAC system.
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