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a data science study found that asylum relief grant rates in immigration court depended primarily on the political climate at the time and on the immigration judge, not on the merits of an individual’s case.55 Moreover, asylum grants radically vary based on geography, even though the average rate of denial is 70%. For example, asylum denial rates in parts of Texas, Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky are higher than 95%,56 with some judges denying 100% of cases. ICE uses an artificial intelligence tool to inform decisions on an immigrant’s terms of electronic monitoring, otherwise known as the Intensive Supervision Appearance (ISAP) program. The ICE ISAP program is an electronic monitoring program that subjects nearly 200,000 immigrants and families to location surveillance, facial recognition and voice recognition surveillance via GPS tracking devices and the SmartLINK cell phone app......[Citing TRAC data and reports.
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