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SmartLINK has become the default method of tracking people, with more than a quarter of a million of the 343,000 being followed that way, TRAC found. Just 25,000 people were tracked by the cellphone app when Biden took office, and that figure has increased tenfold in that time. Facial scans are taken through the app to verify the correct person is checking in, and his or her exact location is documented.
The Biden administration has also turned back to using ankle monitors on tens of thousands more people than this summer. As of late September, more than 40,000 people were released with the ankle-fastened gadget.
Roughly 20,000 people were required to report to ICE on certain dates and times by landline telephone.
The influx of immigrants at the southern border has put more pressure on ICE, which in turn has increased its use of the program due to a lack of funding to detain hundreds of thousands of people at a time and the Biden administration’s opposition to detaining people for immigration offenses.
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